Items Tagged With hack

Home Automation Gun Turret

Monday, 23 April 2007

I've often joked with friends about motorised gun turrets in my Home Automation setup, but Vaughn Rupp has actually done it! A combination of a CCTV PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) mount, a miniature CCTV camera to look along the barrel, all married to a Web interface allows Vaughn to connect to his home remotely and "discourage" unwanted visitors. This seems to be the Mk1 version with the promise of "bigger guns" to come in the next one. Watch the video...

 

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DIY AV Switcher

Wednesday, 14 March 2007

Engadget have a great tutorial on building your own solid-state AV switcher...

"In this How-To we'll show you how to wire up your own A/V switcher which you can expand and use any way you'd like, for composite, S-Sideo, component, even VGA signals. Sure, you can buy a newer, really expensive TV's with multiple inputs (even component), but for those of us whose credit cards aren't quite up to that challenge, more inputs for less cash would be rather desirable. Let's get started...

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Parallel Port Lighting Control

Monday, 5 March 2007

 

Hacked Gadgets brings you schematics and photos of Raphael Assenat's home built, opto isolated lighting control system...

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X10 Lighting Monitoring - Probe Zone Hub Review

Wednesday, 3 January 2007

 

Submission By: Marcus Warrington - Like almost all the currently available UK X10 modules, the LD11 does NOT support status response. This coupled with the fact that X10 commands can sometimes "go astray" and seemingly disappear into the electrical ether before reaching the chosen device, means that the tracking of the current status of a device is very error prone...

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Nintendo Wii Controlled Smarthome

Tuesday, 26 December 2006

An interesting Home Automation project using the Nintendo Wii as an interface to the home...

"This is my Nintendo Wii Controlled Smart Home. Using the Wii-Mote and my Nintendo Wii, I have an onscreen Flash User Interface that lets me control the following aspects of my home: Lights, Thermostat, Security Camera, Music Playback, Cable DVR, and more."

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