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Set Up Your Own Private Smart Home

Set Up Your Own Private Smart Home

Kathy Giori

By Kathy Giori

Kathy Giori

KATHY GIORI is senior product manager at Mozilla; in previous roles she promoted open source hardware and software at Arduino, Qualcomm, and various startups. She holds degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota and Stanford.

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Smart home products, like dumb ones, fall into a couple different categories: there’s “fun and entertaining” and then there’s “practical.” Fun stuff when made smart tends to offer me the benefit of convenience; for example, I can ask a smart speaker to play my choice of music. Practical products can bring me added safety and […]

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Monitor Soil Moisture With An ESP8266 And A Hygrometer

Monitor Soil Moisture With An ESP8266 And A Hygrometer

Diego Moreira

By Diego Moreira

Diego Moreira

Diego Moreira full name is Francisco Diego Lima Moreira. Diego Moreira is a technician in Industrial Automation, graduating in Mechatronics Industrial Technology at the Federal Institute of Cear│ and Founder of the Arduino School Company in Brazil.

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In this article we will take the first step towards developing an intelligent system aimed at monitoring and controlling soil moisture in plants and plantations.

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Driving A Tiny RC Car Over The Internet Using ESP8266

Driving A Tiny RC Car Over The Internet Using ESP8266

Surrogate.tv

By Surrogate.tv

Surrogate.tv

At Surrogate, we want to introduce a new category of online games where players get to control real-life over the internet. By combining robotics, cameras, and low-latency streaming technology we bring a new type of experience to the online community which we call Surrogate Reality. To encourage makers, for every game we make we shoot a build video explaining in-depth how anyone can create these real-life games themselves.

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A couple of months ago we set ourselves a project to create an internet-connected RC track where people from anywhere in the world could drive real 1:43 scale RC cars over the internet in real-time – even when thousands of miles away from our race track here in Helsinki, Finland. See the build video: One […]

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