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Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects

By : Shantanu Bhadoria, Ruben Oliva Ramos
Book Image

Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects

By: Shantanu Bhadoria, Ruben Oliva Ramos

Overview of this book

Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects addresses the challenge of applying real-world projects to automate your house using Raspberry Pi 3 and Arduino. You will learn how to customize and program the Raspberry Pi 3 and Arduino-based boards in several home automation projects around your house. This book aims to help you integrate different microcontrollers like Arduino, ESP8266 Wi-Fi module, Particle Photon and Raspberry Pi 3 into the real world, taking the best of these boards to develop some exciting home automation projects. We will start with an interesting project creating a Raspberry Pi Powered smart mirror and move on to Automated Gardening System, which will help you build a simple smart gardening to keep your garden healthy with minimal effort. You will also learn to build projects such as CheerLights into a holiday display, a project to erase parking headaches with OpenCV and Raspberry Pi 3, create Netfl ix's "The Switch" for the living room and lock down your house like Fort Knox with a Windows IoT face recognition-based door lock system. By the end of the book, you will be able to build and automate the living space with intriguing IoT projects and bring a new degree of inter connectivity to your world.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Connecting it all together

Adafruit the NeoPixels LED strip has three inputs: GND, V+ (or VIN) and DIN (or Digital Input). The ordering of the inputs may differ depending on when and who you order the strip from. Follow these steps:

  1. First connect the capacitor and power supply in parallel.
  2. Connect the 1000μF capacitor in parallel across the 5V power supply. If your multimeter supports capacitance measurement and 1000μF is within the measuring range, you may use it to verify the capacitance of your capacitor.
  1. Connect up the grounds next. Connect the power supply ground to the LED strip ground, to the 74AHCT125 ground and the 10E pins, and to ground on the ESP8266. If you have a 3.3V supply, connect the grounds of the two power supplies as well.

Connecting the data...