Items Tagged With cabling

Many years ago I discovered the Automated Home site, and within it was the Node Zero gallery. The projects in that gallery inspired me to build my own. The opportunity came up when moving into my current home - an old semi-detached house needing a little work. There was a period of several weeks between owning the house and moving in that meant that I could go crazy with installing cables without anything getting in the way...

Automated Home reader and gadget junkie Quinten Uijldert has just rebuilt his Node Zero (thats his wiring cupboard for the uninitiated).  Check out his article on building a budget custom DIY rack for all his gear...

London based company, En-Twyn recently showed this prototype at the CeBit show.  Kind of a HomePlug Ethernet unit, built into a regular power outlet faceplate, it's an interesting idea that would particularly appeal to anyone wanting to retro-fit lots of Ethernet in their home...

We’ve had our Sonos setup for nearly three years now and it continues to be a joy to own and use.  Our original setup of 2 x ZP100s (the zone players with built in amplifiers) was recently added to with a third un-amp’d ZP80.  The new ZonePlayer was swapped for the ZP100 in the AV room where amplification was not required as it was already plugged into our home cinema system.  So the plan was to utilise the now spare ZP100 as a zone in the en-suite bathroom off our main bedroom...

Sometimes you have a CAT5 cable in place but no power connector nearby. Perhaps you want to move your wireless access point into the loft for example.  With these inexpensive passive Power over Ethernet (PoE) connectors it's a easy job, check out the video after the jump...