Learn home automation with this months MagPi magazine
The latest edition of The MagPi magazine is out now and it is packed with smart home projects. Discover how to use Pico W to control devices around the house from ambient lighting to garage doors. And get ready for the Holiday season with LED lights on your Christmas tree.
The MagPi issue 123 out now
Discover home automation projects and set up your Christmas lights in the latest edition of The MagPi.
Build a Smart Home
There’s been a boom smart home projects that feature Pico W at the heart. Use the new Wi-Fi connectivity found in the new Pico W microcontroller board to wirelessly control devices around the home. This month, PJ takes a look at the best home automation kit, projects and walk-through setting up smart lighting with Pico W.
Pico-powered Christmas Lights
Get ready for the Holiday season with our guide to using Pico to control Christmas lights. This tutorial will walk you through decorating your tree, controlling lights with code and adjust the RGB colour values to create your own patterns.
PoleFX
The networking power of Raspberry Pi is used to create light-illuminated poles for acrobatic dancing. With OpenCV image tracking and thousands of LEDs this unique project is incredibly detailed.
CyberDog Smart Saddle
If lighting up poles in a dance studio isn’t enough. How about lighting up your dog and taking it for a walk? We chat with the maker of this Smart Saddle that uses hundreds of LEDs to create a rainbow saddle for when a loveable hound goes for a walk!
Arribada Penguin Monitoring
How work at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) led to a project designing digital ‘traps’ to photograph animals. This then led to a project designing a camera setup that could with standard an Antarctic winter and snap photographs of penguins every hour.
BMOctoprint
BMO is a character from the animated fantasy Adventure Time [according to Rob at least – Ed] and BMOctoprint combines this cute retro-inspired character with a powerful OctoPrint server for controlling 3D printers.
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