Those of you interested in building your very own automation systems may be enjoyed reading the new home automation page created by the official Arduino team. The new resource provides over 40+ home ...

A Raspberry Pi 5 can replace small appliances, automate tasks, and deliver real value through practical projects that improve ...

Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and other tech media. Asay has also held a variety of executive roles with leading mobile and big data software ...

Internet of Things enthusiasts and those of you who like creating home automation projects may be interested in a new IoT board based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040 processor. The aptly named IoTPi is ...

Home automation is huge right now in consumer electronics, but despite the wide availability of products on the market, hackers and makers are still spinning up their own solutions. It could be ...

The self-hosting ecosystem is rife with cool and quirky apps designed to automate every facet of your life. There’s the holy Terraform and Ansible combo for home lab enthusiasts who love watching VMs ...

Today’s project of the day is from J-J Shortcuts’s blog and is about the voice activated home automation project, a domotica controlled room. First let’s see it in action: This is the beginning of my ...

Home automation – the idea of a smart home that monitors and controls the inside environment, takes commands from occupants, and generally makes living easier. Hackers, makers, and engineers have been ...

Co-founder Marc Fleury has a vision to leverage community to make OpenRemote successful, but it's not the kind of open-source community most people talk about. Matt Asay is a veteran technology ...

Control engineers from around the world have shared their experiences to provide a wealth of practical advice on what to do – and what to avoid – when planning and implementing an automation project ...

What comes to mind when you think of a smart home? Wi-Fi enabled light bulbs, video doorbells, cloud-connected robot vacuums, or smart fridges perhaps? Brands like Google/Nest or everything enabled ...

The first would be a way to reward us here at Ars for doing a good job. Malcolm had the idea of hacking a gumball machine that would dispense a gumball (or candy or whatever), every time one of my ...