In this project, I will show you how you can make some of your standard Halloween decorations “smart” using Phidgets and a Raspberry Pi. This can be done with almost any decoration that is powered, but it’s best if you have a decoration with a demo mode. These ones are easy to pick out as […]
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This instructable is an adaptation of one of our blog posts. Before beginning, you’ll want to have a few things in place. You’ll need: A functioning Raspberry Pi (obviously). A separately powered USB hub, since the Raspberry Pi isn’t capable of delivering enough power on the USB ports to drive most Phidgets or other USB
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Hello Makers, In this instructable I will be showing you how to prepare a Raspberry Pi2 for use with a Phidgets Interfacekit 8/8/8 The Products from Phidgets allow you to connect sensors an actuators to your pc/pi/mac through the usb port. Most of the sensors do not require any soldering. http://www.phidgets.com/ There are plenty of
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In previous tutorials we used Raspberry Pi to drive Phidgets InterfaceKit. We have also set up a web server on Raspberry. In this tutorial we will use the information gathered to create an Home Automation System managed with a Web Application. You need: a Raspberry Pi B or B+, with installed Web Server and the
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In the previous tutorial we saw how you can drive the digital outputs of the Phidgets 1018 remotely, in this tutorial instead we will check the status of the digital inputs, which can be connected to magnetic contacts, push buttons, switches, etc. You need: a Raspberry Pi B or B+, with installed Web Server and
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