Chapter 3: Home Automation Projects
In this chapter, we are going to discuss simple home automation projects using the Raspberry Pi Pico. We are going to work on simple projects that could be executed over a weekend and improve our immediate surroundings. We will get started by learning to interface sensors to detect events at home. Then, we will start publishing the events detected by the sensor to the cloud. We will also discuss controlling appliances at home using the Pico.
While we will be discussing the projects using the Raspberry Pi Pico, we will also introduce the RP2040 Connect from Arduino. The examples discussed in this chapter could be executed using an RP2040 Connect with some modifications to the code.
We are going to cover the following main topics in this chapter:
- Installing the requisite libraries
- Interfacing sensors
- Controlling appliances
- Publishing sensor events to the cloud
- Controlling LED strips
- Introducing the RP2040 Connect...