Tour of My Home Network (2020 Update)
About three years ago I did a tour of my home network (old tour) and it turned out to be one of my most popular articles on The Ge...
Controlling an Arduino from a Web Page
When I got my first Arduino the first thing I thought was "Wow! I'd love to be able to control this thing from a web page!", but o...
Controlling WS2812b LEDs with a Raspberry Pi
In our last article we discussed how to wire WS2812b addressable LEDs to a Raspberry Pi. Of course, just wiring them up doesn't r...
Wiring WS2812b Addressable LEDs to the Raspbery Pi
I don't know where I have been recently, but I stumbled across one of the greatest inventions of all time recently: Addressable LE...
Are Smart Locks Safe?
It is probably one of the most common questions I get when I tell people I have a fully enabled smart home. People are really inse...
Is Alexa Safe?
I recently gave a tour of my home network. I walked around my home and showed all of the different electronic components of my hom...
Tour of My Home Network (and More!)
So I have had a ton of requests over the years to give a tour of my home network. Honestly, I never gave the tour because I just d...
Use Siri to Control Nest, MyQ, HomeSeer, etc.
A lot of people want to use Siri to control Nest, HomeSeer, or other automation systems. Apple created a product suite called Home...