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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

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We have refreshed ourselves on the subjects covered so far. Let's look at future projects that you can try. These will provide you with a few ideas on how you can expand existing projects and provide some starting points to build your own ideas from scratch.

First, we'll review the prototyping Pi Plate. Then we will look at the Gertboard and its background. Finally, we'll provide some ideas for future projects that could use the Cooking Hacks shield, Gertboard, Arduino or the prototype shield.

The prototyping Pi Plate

The Raspberry Pi prototyping Pi Plate shield is a kit provided by Adafruit Industries. You can find out more about it at http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-prototyping-pi-plate/overview. It allows you to create a prototyping shield that connects to the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi. You may be familiar with this principle from the Cooking Hacks shield, which you used to build your previous projects. Unlike the Raspberry Pi to Arduino shield, this is...

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