Do you have any DIY hacks you have made in your home?
Any usefull or just interesting project with rpy, arduino, custom atmel and other diy platform count.
Ask HN: How did you hack your home?
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#2Oddly, my favorite is an LED strip in my bathroom. It's very subtly animated, but the point is, it's red. Whenever I wake up at night, and need to go to the bathroom, I turn it on instead of the overhead light so it doesn't hurt my eyes. :)
Easily my dumbest thing by by far the most appreciated.
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#3In the pre-Smartphone era (not really, but I didn't buy one back then), I built a printer that would output a daily report every morning that I could just take with me:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sfg/albums/72157623026358605
I used an old POS printer from eBay and an Arduino with an Ethernet shield. It was a fun thing, but was made obsolete by smartphones.
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#4I've built a few raspberry pi based home automation systems, from relays switching my garden lights and irrigation, to 3D printed brackets and pulleys to convert my manual curtain tracks to motorised ones, WiFi controlled power sockets to switch lamps, and even a full aquarium control system managing the lighting (colour temperature and brightness), filter and aeration, and heater. I'm currently using NodeRED to build the logic and provide a web interface.
Re: Ask HN: How did you hack your home?
#5In the pre-Smartphone era (not really, but I didn't buy one back then), I built a printer that would output a daily report every morning that I could just take with me: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sfg/albums/72157623026358605 I used an old POS printer from eBay and an Arduino with an Ethernet shield. It was a fun thing, but was made obsolete by smartphones.
So cool! Thanks for sharing
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#6Divorced my wife. After that, my Arduino experiments feel pretty limited in impact on my household.
Re: Ask HN: How did you hack your home?
#7In the pre-Smartphone era (not really, but I didn't buy one back then), I built a printer that would output a daily report every morning that I could just take with me: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sfg/albums/72157623026358605 I used an old POS printer from eBay and an Arduino with an Ethernet shield. It was a fun thing, but was made obsolete by smartphones.
I love your project. Bridging virtual and material component is so satisfying :).
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#8I've built a few raspberry pi based home automation systems, from relays switching my garden lights and irrigation, to 3D printed brackets and pulleys to convert my manual curtain tracks to motorised ones, WiFi controlled power sockets to switch lamps, and even a full aquarium control system managing the lighting (colour temperature and brightness), filter and aeration, and heater. I'm currently using NodeRED to buil…
The aquarium project is nice! Is your project open source?
Re: Ask HN: How did you hack your home?
#9Divorced my wife. After that, my Arduino experiments feel pretty limited in impact on my household.
Often the most overlooked hack.
Re: Ask HN: How did you hack your home?
#10Divorced my wife. After that, my Arduino experiments feel pretty limited in impact on my household.
The title says "hack" not "lose"