Home Hacking Projects for Geeks

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Preface

How to Contact the Authors

Let us know how you’ve improved our projects. We have a web page for this

book, where we host a community of geeks, list errata, examples, and any

additional information. Perhaps most importantly, you can download each

project’s source code (with updates). You can access this page at:

http://www.homehacking.com/

Acknowledgments

We got a lot of help from some great people to make this book. Special

thanks to open source developers Robin Smidsrød, Robbie Harris, Shaun

Faulds, and Isaac Richards for creating software that enables this technol-

ogy and making it freely available. Special thanks to Axel Thimm and Jarod

Wilson for helping the world by creating a Linux-based home theater PC,

and to Jon Simmons for his help designing the keyless entry system.

We had a great crew of tech reviewers: Casey Ajalat, Jon Simmons, Tom

Keegan, Chris Geggis, and Dale Dougherty. The time they dedicated to the

early draft of this book greatly improved the quality, and we are indebted

to each of them.

We’d also like to thank Mark Frauenfelder for his “geek” illustrations, used

throughout the book to illustrate how the projects work.

Eric would like to thank Tony for bringing him into the world of book writ-

ing by asking for assistance with this book. It happened just days after Eric

said, “I want to be more like you.” He’d also like to express his g ...