This ceiling ‘coffer’ is lit by four 5m LED strips cut slightly down to size. In 2017 digital LED strips were rare. If you wanted really, really bright light, analogue white LED strips were...
A home automation platform, such as Home Assistant, allows you to make temperature v time graphs using sensors that you might place around the home. Monitoring temperatures allowed me to get my heating devices...
Yes. Below you’ll see how to control HomeEasy devices through Home Assistant and the RFlink receiver/transmitter. (This also controls other manufacturers’ wireless sockets). You’ll be able to create timers and automation to turn things...
If you want to use a GitHub project with Arduino software follow this step-by-step guide. We’ll make an ESP32 camera web server using the Github code from ‘easytarget’. An ESP32-CAM module consists of a...
The need: you use a table light for watching TV and a main (wall) light at other times and you want a coffee table button to switch between one or the other or have...
In this project we integrate inexpensive 433MHz RF devices with modern smart devices see also: 433MHz smarter letterbox how to set up RFlink so that it will read your RF sensors The easiest ready-to-roll...
How does one house an electronics project? Is there a neat way to house a smart doorbell and camera? I don’t relish the effort to design a 3D model. Maybe I was looking for...
Arduino IDE is software that lets us develop code for a writing on a chip. Explore its menu and we soon see it’s made to transfer a great many capabilities to a great many...
Dupont leads connect up projects. They come as male to male pin / female to female / male pin to female types. You can solder the male ends to a headless board to make...
A volume control near the mouse and ready to turn. Bash the top and the video or track pauses. Double bash to skip to the next track. It’s plug and play, requires no app...
rogerfrost.com is a compendium of ideas for using technology to find answers to sciencey questions. Since 1995 it has provided ideas to school science teachers. Since 2020 we’ve focussed on questions around the home with a new home automation section. So today we look at ways to measure and monitor around the house.
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