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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 ...