Schlagwort: Arduino Home Automation
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Home automation ideas for the fall season
Reading Time: 6 minutesThere’s a lot to love about the fall season, and when it comes to home automation there’s a ton of opportunity here for smart makers to start playing around with new ideas and creations. In this article, we’ll take a look at some ways you can use home automation to enhance your…
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Is your house secure? 4 common threats and how home automation can keep you safe
Reading Time: 7 minutesIf there’s one place in the world you want to feel safe, it’s inside your home. And yet, the unfortunate reality is that our homes can sometimes be a source of danger. From burglaries to fires, it’s important to take precautions to make sure your house remains a sanctuary and not a…
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10 cutting-edge ways to impress your guests with the IoT
Reading Time: 8 minutesThe Internet of Things has the power to transform your home into a futuristic web of cutting-edge gadgets, working together to make life easier, safer, and more entertaining. And while the IoT has a bunch of day-to-day applications like watering your plants and keeping your cupboards stocked, you can also use it…
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Some of the biggest ways home automation is changing in 2023
Reading Time: 8 minutesHome automation is exploding in popularity. In 2021, the average household had 25 connected devices, a massive increase on previous years, driven in no small part by the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns. And in 2023, the number of smart homes worldwide looks set to hit 195.8 million. We’re living through a fascinating…
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Get More Out of Your Smartphone with Arduino
Reading Time: 5 minutesOur smartphones go pretty much everywhere with us, and we use them for more things than we even realize. From literally the very moment we’re startled into life in the morning, until the one final doom scroll through social media before bed, our phones are with us. It makes sense, then, to…
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Why using 3D printing in your smart home is so useful
Reading Time: 3 minutes3D printing, the stuff of science fiction only a few short years ago, is becoming more widely available all the time. Buying your own 3D printer to keep in your home is now fairly accessible, with entry-level printers available for just a few hundred dollars. But why would you buy one? It’s…
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Host the best BBQs ever with home automation
Reading Time: 3 minutesEverybody loves a good BBQ. Getting your family and friends together on a long summer day and evening, cooking delicious food and having a great time as smoke drifts through the air — it’s the perfect weekend activity. BBQs can also be stressful, however. Anyone who has ever tried to host one…
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Grow a beautiful garden with home automation
Reading Time: 4 minutesA beautiful, lush garden is a wonderful thing. Not only does it look good year-round and impress the neighbours, but itâs also a great place to spend time in the summer months and entertain guests. However, a good garden is not an easy thing to maintain. It takes many hours of hard…
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Streamline your morning routine with home automation
Reading Time: 4 minutesLet’s face it — mornings can be tough. Even the earliest risers and the most enthusiastic morning larks sometimes struggle to drag themselves out of bed and attack the day. The good news is that automation can always save things. By using home automation wisely, you can save time in the morning,…
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Build a smart home entertainment system
Reading Time: 4 minutesSmart homes have many benefits, and it’s not all about convenience, security, and chores. Entertainment is a big part of what we do at home, and smart technology can help us maximize our enjoyment of our home entertainment systems and manage them more easily. In this article, we’ll look at some of…
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40+ Ideas For Your Next Home Automation Project with Arduino Cloud
Reading Time: 3 minutesArduino Team — September 2nd, 2022 Home automation has increasingly become a need in our lives. Without even noticing it we have been adding connected elements to our homes and buildings to make our lives easier and nowadays we are surrounded by electronic devices that monitor our environment, control our lighting systems…
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Self-contained, Arduino Cloud-connected home monitoring module
Reading Time: 3 minutesHome monitoring is a big part of home automation, but it’s often overshadowed. Our attention tends to get hijacked by cool projects that perform physical actions. Whether it’s turning the lights on, changing their color, running a robot vacuum cleaner, pulling on the blinds or watering the garden. All these actions are…
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Rotary phone transformed into home automation device
Reading Time: 2 minutesRotary phone transformed into home automation device Arduino Team — November 26th, 2018 While once an essential communication tool, rotary phones in the wild are quite a rarity today. Still, they do hold a certain charm, and hacker Kristiaan N. decided to turn one of these units into a clever home automation…
