One of the great things about home automation is that it’s limitless. Whether you add more smart locks, toss some smart light bulbs into lamps, or add another smart thermostat to your home, it’s ...

An HVAC company in search of modern machine-control advantages finds an Arduino-compatible open PLC controller is the solution. Like many modern-day makers and hobbyists, I have always been inspired ...

Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) disclosed on Tuesday that it is acquiring hardware startup Arduino to expand the San Diego-based chipmakers presence in the automation and robotics markets. Terms of the deal ...

[Joseph] wrote in to share this home automation system he’s working on as a college project. He calls it the Room Engine and the house-side of the hardware is built on top of the circuit you see here.

The Teensy microcontroller. [Credit: Adafruit] The Arduino microcontroller is an easy way to get into electronics, and it can help you develop some awesome projects involving robotics, home automation ...

PJON, pronounced like the iridescent sky rats found in every city, is a cool one wire protocol designed by [gioblu]. [gioblu] wasn’t impressed with the complications of I2C. He thought one-wire was ...

Technically, an open-source ecosystem is “open” in that anyone may contribute to and draw upon the work of an entire community of developers. Interestingly, open source has come to mean that the doors ...