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Building a Raspberry Pi Smart Home

Building a Raspberry Pi Smart Home

Story Earlier this year, we showcased our Raspberry Pi Future Home, a fully connected LEGO smart house model with LEDs, weather sensors, and a realtime control dashboard. And now, we’ll show you exactly how to build one (and give you all the code you need as well!). We promised that we’d dig deeper into the individual […]

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Character LCD over I2C

Character LCD over I2C

Introduction This is project about simple library for communication Windows IoT with LCD character display over I2C bus. Just download the library from github and start creating your own projects. Character LCD display over I2C Connect HD44780 LCD character display to Windows 10 IoT devices via I2C and PCF8574 Basic usage (tl;dr) Initialization I2C bus

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Basic LCD 16x2

Basic LCD 16×2

Story What is Alphanumerical LCD Alphanumerical LCD’s is pretty old but still good to use devices. They can display basic alphabetical characters, numbers but also you can upload your own characters in their memory and use them for special stuff. You can get them from variety of sources (for example on Adafruit) in different number

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Smart Home Dashboard 1

Smart Home Dashboard

Story My home automation system is a mishmash of devices: the Iris Smart Home platform by Lowe’s, Irrigation Caddy, Logitech Harmony, and others. I decided to write an app to consolidate the controls all in one place, rather than using the multiple existing apps to control each device separately.Smart Home Mobile was the result of

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Hands on lab WeatherStation schemetic

//build: Hands-on-lab WeatherStation

The new Windows.Devices namespace from the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) APIs in Windows 10, enable developers to leverage the power of Windows while interacting with the real world via sensors and actuators. This project uses the I2C bus and general purpose input/output (GPIO) ports available on the Raspberry Pi 2, to create an internet connected

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3A Power supply for USB devices

3A Power supply for USB devices

This is 5V 3A power supply to drive two USB based devices simultaneously. This power supply is design around LM2576-5.0 switching regulator IC and the main reasons to choose this IC is its low parts count, small heat sink requirements and its inbuilt current limit protection feature. We specially design this power supply to work

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