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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.
Content preview from Home Hacking Projects for Geeks
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Part 1 of this book eases you into home modding. In Chapter 1, you’ll learn
how to add a motion detector to a light inside your house. It’s an easy mod
that introduces you to X10 and shows you how to go about replacing light
switches in your home. In Chapter 2, you’ll take it a step further by auto-
mating your porch light. You’ll use your experience from Chapter 1 and
learn how to control your lights from your Linux or Windows computer.
Chapter 3 will be your favorite project when traveling, because you’ll use
inexpensive wireless cameras to monitor your pet across the Internet. In
Chapter 4, you’ll connect your computer to inexpensive wireless speakers,
and have it read you the current outdoor temperature before you even get
out of bed in the morning.
Part I: Home Automation
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In this part
Chapter 1, Automate a Light
Chapter 2, Automate Your Porch Light
Chapter 3, Remotely Monitor a Pet
Chapter 4, Make Your House Talk
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