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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)

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning. Code words in the text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Make sure your Raspberry Pi is updated and upgraded. You can do this by typing sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade".

A block of code is set as follows:

{
module: 'module name',
position: 'position',
header: 'optional header',
config: {
extra option: 'value'
}
},

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

{
module: 'module name',
position: 'position',
header: 'optional header',
config: {
extra option: 'value'
}
},

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

wget http://node-arm.herokuapp.com/node_latest_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg –i node_latest_armhf.deb

New terms and important words are shown in bold.

Warnings or important notes appear like this.
Tips and tricks appear like this.