Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects

by Shantanu Bhadoria
Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects
Author: Shantanu Bhadoria
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2017-11-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1783283882
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“With futuristic homes on the rise, learn to control and automate the living space with intriguing IoT projects.” About This Book Build exciting (six) end-to-end home automation projects with Raspberry Pi 3, Seamlessly communicate and control your existing devices and build your own home automation system, Automate tasks in your home through projects that are reliable and fun Who This Book Is For This book is for all those who are excited about building home automation systems with Raspberry Pi 3. It's also for electronic hobbyists and developers with some knowledge of electronics and programming. What You Will Learn Integrate different embedded microcontrollers and development boards like Arduino, ESP8266, Particle Photon and Raspberry Pi 3, creating real life solutions for day to day tasks and home automation Create your own magic mirror that lights up with useful information as you walk up to it Create a system that intelligently decides when to water your garden and then goes ahead and waters it for you Use the Wi-fi enabled Adafruit ESP8266 Huzzah to create your own networked festive display lights Create a simple machine learning application and build a parking automation system using Raspberry Pi Learn how to work with AWS cloud services and connect your home automation to the cloud Learn how to work with Windows IoT in Raspberry Pi 3 and build your own Windows IoT Face Recognition door locking system In Detail Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects addresses the challenge of applying real-world projects to automate your house using Raspberry Pi 3 and Arduino. You will learn how to customize and program the Raspberry Pi 3 and Arduino-based boards in several home automation projects around your house, in order to develop home devices that will really rejuvenate your home. This book aims to help you integrate different microcontrollers like Arduino, ESP8266 Wi-Fi module, Particle Photon and Raspberry Pi 3 into the real world, taking the best of these boards to develop some exciting home automation projects. You will be able to use these projects in everyday tasks, thus making life easier and comfortable. We will start with an interesting project creating a Raspberry Pi-Powered smart mirror and move on to Automated Gardening System, which will help you build a simple smart gardening system with plant-sensor devices and Arduino to keep your garden healthy with minimal effort. You will also learn to build projects such as CheerLights into a holiday display, a project to erase parking headaches with OpenCV and Raspberry Pi 3, create Netflix's "The Switch" for the living room and lock down your house like Fort Knox with a Windows IoT face recognition-based door lock system. By the end of the book, you will be able to build and automate the living space with intriguing IoT projects and bring a new degree of interconnectivity to your world. Style and approach End to end home automation projects with Raspberry Pi 3.

Home Automation with Raspberry Pi: Projects Using Google Home, Amazon Echo, and Other Intelligent Personal Assistants

by Donald Norris
Home Automation with Raspberry Pi: Projects Using Google Home, Amazon Echo, and Other Intelligent Personal Assistants
Author: Donald Norris
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2019-05-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1260440362
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Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Gain the skills needed to create a hi-tech home―affordably and easily This hands-on guide shows, step by step, how to use the powerful Raspberry Pi for home automation. Written in an easy-to-follow style, the book features DIY projects for Amazon Echo, Google Home, smart lightbulbs and thermostats, and more. Home Automation with Raspberry Pi: Projects Using Google Home, Amazon Echo, and Other Intelligent Personal Assistants lays out essential skills for hobbyists and makers of all ages and experience levels. You will discover how to build gadgets that can work in conjunction with―or in some cases replace―commercially available smart home products. Inside, you’ll learn how to: •Design and build custom home automation devices •Interface a Google Home device to your Raspberry Pi •Connect Google Voice Assistant to RasPi •Incorporate GPIO control using the Amazon Echo •Navigate home automation operating systems •Use Z-Wave in your RasPi HA projects •Apply fuzzy logic techniques to your projects •Work with sensors and develop home security systems •Utilize two open-source AI applications, Mycroft and Picroft •Tie your projects together to create an integrated home automation system

Raspberry Pi Home Automation with Arduino - Second Edition

by Andrew K. Dennis
Raspberry Pi Home Automation with Arduino - Second Edition
Author: Andrew K. Dennis
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2015-02-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1784393932
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If you are new to the Raspberry Pi, the Arduino, or home automation and wish to develop some amazing projects using these tools, then this book is for you. Any experience in using the Raspberry Pi would be an added advantage.

Smart Home Automation with Linux and Raspberry Pi

by Steven Goodwin
Smart Home Automation with Linux and Raspberry Pi
Author: Steven Goodwin
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2013-07-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1430258888
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Smart Home Automation with Linux and Raspberry Pi shows you how to automate your lights, curtains, music, and more, and control everything via a laptop or mobile phone. You'll learn how to use Linux, including Linux on Raspberry Pi, to control appliances and everything from kettles to curtains, including how to hack game consoles and even incorporate LEGO Mindstorms into your smart home schemes. You’ll discover the practicalities on wiring a house in terms of both and power and networking, along with the selection and placement of servers. There are also explanations on handling communication to (and from) your computer with speech, SMS, email, and web. Finally, you’ll see how your automated appliances can collaborate to become a smart home. Smart Home Automation with Linux was already an excellent resource for home automation, and in this second edition, Steven Goodwin will show you how a house can be fully controlled by its occupants, all using open source software and even open source hardware like Raspberry Pi and Arduino.

Raspberry Pi and AVR Projects

by Cefn Hoile
Raspberry Pi and AVR Projects
Author: Cefn Hoile
Publisher: Maker Media, Inc.
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2014-11-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1457186209
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As an incredibly cheap, credit-card sized computer, the Raspberry Pi is breaking down barriers by encouraging people of all ages to experiment with code and build new systems and objects; and this book provides readers with inspiring and insightful examples to explore and build upon. Written for intermediate to seasoned Raspberry Pi users, this book explores four projects from around the world, explained by their makers. These projects cover five major categories in the digital maker space: music, light, games, home automation, and the Internet of Things.

Raspberry Pi 3 Projects for Java Programmers

by Pradeeka Seneviratne
Raspberry Pi 3 Projects for Java Programmers
Author: Pradeeka Seneviratne
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2017-05-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 178646361X
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Learn the art of building enticing projects by unleashing the potential of Raspberry Pi 3 using Java About This Book Explore the small yet powerful mini computer in order to run java applications Leverage Java libraries to build exciting projects on home automation, IoT, and Robotics by leveraging Java libraries Get acquainted with connecting electronic sensors to your Raspberry Pi 3 using Java APIs. Who This Book Is For The book is aimed at Java programmers who are eager to get their hands-on Raspberry Pi and build interesting projects using java. They have a very basic knowledge of Raspberry Pi. What You Will Learn Use presence detection using the integrated bluetooth chip Automatic light switch using presence detection Use a centralized IoT service to publish data using RPC Control a robot by driving motors using PWM Create a small web service capable of performing actions on the Raspberry Pi and supply readings Image capture using Java together with the OpenCV framework In Detail Raspberry Pi is a small, low cost and yet very powerful development platform. It is used to interact with attached electronics by the use of it's GPIO pins for multiple use cases, mainly Home Automation and Robotics. Our book is a project-based guide that will show you how to utilize the Raspberry Pi's GPIO with Java and how you can leverage this utilization with your knowledge of Java. You will start with installing and setting up the necessary hardware to create a seamless development platform. You will then straightaway start by building a project that will utilize light for presence detection. Next, you will program the application, capable of handling real time data using MQTT and utilize RPC to publish data to adafruit.io. Further, you will build a wireless robot on top of the zuma chassis with the Raspberry Pi as the main controller. Lastly, you will end the book with advanced projects that will help you to create a multi-purpose IoT controller along with building a security camera that will perform image capture and recognize faces with the help of notifications. By the end of the book, you will be able to build your own real world usable projects not limited to Home Automation, IoT and/or Robotics utilizing logic, user and web interfaces. Style and approach The book will contain projects that ensure a java programmer gets started with building interesting projects using the small yet powerful Raspberry Pi 3. We will start with brushing up your Raspberry Pi skills followed by building 5-6 projects

Internet of Things with Raspberry Pi 3

by Maneesh Rao
Internet of Things with Raspberry Pi 3
Author: Maneesh Rao
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2018-04-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1788620658
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Unleash the power of the Raspberry Pi 3 board to create interesting IoT projects Key Features Learn how to interface various sensors and actuators with the Raspberry Pi 3 and send this data to the cloud. Explore the possibilities offered by the IoT by using the Raspberry Pi to upload measurements to Google Docs. A practical guide that will help you create a Raspberry Pi robot using IoT modules. Book Description This book is designed to introduce you to IoT and Raspberry Pi 3. It will help you create interesting projects, such as setting up a weather station and measuring temperature and humidity using sensors; it will also show you how to send sensor data to cloud for visualization in real-time. Then we shift our focus to leveraging IoT for accomplishing complex tasks, such as facial recognition using the Raspberry Pi camera module, AWS Rekognition, and the AWS S3 service. Furthermore, you will master security aspects by building a security surveillance system to protect your premises from intruders using Raspberry Pi, a camera, motion sensors, and AWS Cloud. We'll also create a real-world project by building a Wi-Fi – controlled robot car with Raspberry Pi using a motor driver circuit, DC motor, and a web application. This book is a must-have as it provides a practical overview of IoT’s existing architectures, communication protocols, and security threats at the software and hardware levels—security being the most important aspect of IoT. What you will learn Understand the concept of IoT and get familiar with the features of Raspberry Pi Learn to integrate sensors and actuators with the Raspberry Pi Communicate with cloud and Raspberry using communication protocols such as HTTP and MQTT Build DIY projects using Raspberry Pi, JavaScript/node.js and cloud (AWS) Explore the best practices to ensure the security of your connected devices Who this book is for If you're a developer or electronics engineer and are curious about the Internet of Things, then this is the book for you. With only a rudimentary understanding of electronics, the Raspberry Pi, or similar credit-card sized computers, and some programming experience, you will be taught to develop state-of-the-art solutions for the Internet of Things in an instant.

The Raspberry Pi 3 Project Book

by Steve McCarthy
The Raspberry Pi 3 Project Book
Author: Steve McCarthy
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2018-01-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781983653490
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If you want to learn more about Raspberry Pi, this is the book for you! Boasting more than just the basics, this book will walk you through everything from setting up the Pi to building a smart TV. McCarhty begins by introducing the reader to OpenCV, which is the computer vision library used for the projects he describes throughout the book. He then outlines in detail how to program video cameras, how to create a GPS designated photo camera, and even link your Raspberry Pi to your Google Home to bring automation to your smart house. In this book you'll work through a series of projects that outline basic Raspberry Pi programming. The projects in this book include: How to create a face detection app Creating a print server that is network accessible How to create a weather app Building your own Smart TV More! Perhaps just as important as the projects themselves, McCarthy's book guides the reader on what he or she should already know before starting any of the projects. His "prerequisites" section explains how a basic understanding of Raspberry Pi is important to executing his projects, and provides resources for the Raspberry Pi programmer-to-be. But this book doesn't just stop with prerequisites! It also includes a "Chapter 0" for very beginners. This chapter takes a step-by-step approach to setting up the Raspberry Pi, connecting devices, and more. Once you set up your Raspberry Pi you'll be off and running! This book explores achievable, functional projects that you can create with your Raspberry Pi, and introduces you to the endless possibilities of Raspberry Pi programming. Whether you're new to the world of Raspberry Pi or simply looking for some new projects to hone your programming skills, this book delivers something useful for any reader. More about Raspberry Pi 3: The Raspberry Pi 3 is a credit-card sized computer that was designed to teach basic computer programing to children. It's an affordable option for schools and families, costing around e20-e40 ($25-$35) per unit. This capable computer allows kids to explore the fundamentals of coding in classrooms and at home! The Raspberry Pi 3 also has quite a bit of functionality outside of the classroom. It can be used to improve home automation, as a low-cost energy monitoring system, and more. Programmers are constantly finding more uses for the Raspberry Pi, so now is a great time to learn how to work with that thing! This is the perfect book to enhance your knowledge and train your skills on Python and Node.js programming by developing fun projects. Grab your copy now!