The benefits of smart home automation may keep you from ever going back to a "dumb" home again. Controlling the temperature, turning on the lights, locking the doors, and seeing who's at the door — ...

Raspberry Pi projects can leverage the computing chops of the tiny SoC to build something very cool. In my college days, it ...

In recent years, integrating smart home devices into your living space has never been simpler. They have become easier to set up with user-friendly apps and step-by-step guides, and some are ...

A free weekend is enough time to turn a spare Raspberry Pi or inexpensive ESP32 board into something genuinely useful. There are tons of projects that are compact enough to finish, or at least reach a ...

Smart home frameworks, broadly speaking, are meant to give you a greater degree of control over the features and functions of your home via interconnected devices. No matter how prevalent smart home ...

Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system administration, network administration, and consulting roles. He ...

Home Assistant can start innocently enough. Maybe you simply need the bedroom lights to turn off automatically, but that's just a gateway drug. After a while, your washing machine starts texting you ...

What if a single device could transform how you approach entertainment, learning, and innovation, all while fitting neatly on your desk? The Raspberry Pi 500 Plus, an all-in-one computer cleverly ...

The first Raspberry Pi was a revolution. It started as a project to offer the cheapest possible computer that someone could use as a normal PC for school or work, or as a risk-free way to learn ...