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Home Hacking Projects for Geeks
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Home Hacking Projects for Geeks

by Eric Faulkner, Tony Northrup
December 2004
Beginner content levelBeginner
336 pages
14h 32m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Preface
You’re comfortable enough with your computer to install software. You
won’t be asked to do anything without easy-to-follow steps.
You’re a geek of some kind but not another. Maybe you’ve built your
own microwave oven but you have no idea how to configure a web
server.
You want to live in the Jetsons’ house. Who doesn’t?
You’re not afraid to learn something new.
Organization of This Book
You should be able to understand the bulk of each project with very little
reading. The pictures alone tell a story. At the beginning of each chapter we
include a conceptual diagram, a “What You Need” list, and a small “Project
Stats” section that describes the relative difficulty, time involved, and cost
of the project. We assume that you’ve already got a PC, so we typically don’t
take that expense into account in the overall cost of the project.
The 13 projects in Home Hacking Projects for Geeks are divided into three
categories: Home Automation, Home Entertainment, and Home Security.
Part I, Home Automation
Chapter 1, Automate a Light (written by Tony Northrup), introduces you to
lighting that responds to your needs without request. We’ll show you how
to automate a light using a motion sensor, and you’ll never need to walk
across a dark basement again.
Chapter 2, Automate Your Porch Light (written by Tony Northrup),
expands upon the concepts i
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