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Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects

By : Shantanu Bhadoria, Ruben Oliva Ramos
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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)

Who this book is for

This book is for you if you agree with one of these:

  • You have seen cool projects on the internet that amateur beginners have set up in their homes and you have an interest in hopping on the DIY automation bus, but don’t know where to start.
  • You have used the Raspberry Pi for a media center or as a Linux desktop and you want to take it to the next level and find the answer to the question "what else can it do?"
  • You want to impress your friends with your use of technology to simplify mundane everyday home tasks.
  • You want someone to hold your hand through creating some cool home automation setups so that you may get the confidence to try your own big idea next.

All the projects in this book are examples of how you may use these boards. You may customize these ideas for your own situations; it depends on what you want to do or create. Your creativity and imagination is the limit.