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We love a good hardware hack and here's a great one from Automated Home reader Martin Howell.  A Velleman IR kit plus a makeup mirror and some Arduino jiggery-pokery allows Martin's home to let him know when there's something in his mail box on the gatepost...

In a quest to make our MacBook last out until next years rumoured major redesign (carbon fibre anyone?) we decided to do the trendy thing and install an SSD.  However we've always been used to having a big hard drive so the 128GB SSD we chose wasn't going to allow us to hold our entire LightRoom library and video files on the laptop like we're used to.  The solution?  Removing our un-used optical drive and replacing it with one of the recently launched 1TB 2.5" 9.5mm hard drives.  SSD speed plus a capacious spindle to store all our stuff on, does it get much better than this?  It's an easy project that anyone can follow.  Here's how we did it...

Home Automation software makers, HomeSeer, have just put a 45 minute webinar video of an introduction to HSTouch - their touchscreen interface software.  If you're a new HSTouch user or even thinking of going with this UI for your smart home control then check out the video below...