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Raspberry Pi Home Automation with Arduino - Second Edition

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi Home Automation with Arduino - Second Edition Unleash the power of the most popular microboards to build convenient, useful, and fun home automation projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784399207
Length 148 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. An Introduction to the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and Home Automation FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started – Setting Up Your Raspberry Pi and Arduino 3. Central Air and Heating Thermostat 4. Temperature Storage – Setting Up a Database to Store Your Results 5. Parcel Delivery Detector 6. Curtain Automation – Open and Close the Curtains Based on the Ambient Light 7. Water/Damp Detection – Check for Damp/Flooding in Sheds and Basements 8. Wrapping Up A. References Index

A brief review of the second edition of Raspberry Pi Home Automation with Arduino


Those of you who read the first edition of this book may have noticed some changes. We hope these have provided you with some new and exciting projects. For first time readers, we hope these changes have whetted your appetite for learning more.

Here is an overview of the topics covered in each chapter, with some of the differences from the first edition:

Chapter 1, An Introduction to the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and Home Automation, and Chapter 2, Getting Started – Setting Up Your Raspberry Pi and Arduino, provided you with some background on the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and the Cooking Hacks shield. We saw that we can take a third-party shield and attach it to the Raspberry Pi. This provided us with the ability to control devices hooked up to the shield (via the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins), as we would with an Arduino microcontroller. In the second edition of the book, we looked at the Arduino in more detail, and...

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