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Motion detectors are useful smart home devices for creating simple automations, such as turning on your lights when you enter ...

GreenPeak Technologies announced the expansion of its Smart Home portfolio with the addtion of a reference design for a low cost Passive Infra-Red (PIR) sensor with outstanding performance.GreenPeak ...

While there are loads of impressive and complex projects here on Hackaday, sometimes it’s the simple ones that really speak to us. In this case we were presented with [Isabell Park]’s easy-to-follow ...

M y adventures of building a smart home on a shoestring budget are taking an interesting turn. It turns out that I don’t need ...

The FP1E’s millimeter wave technology provides for a much more nuanced look at whether a room is occupied or not, but you’ll need one of Aqara’s Zigbee or Matter smart home hubs to use it. Whatever ...

The project uses a digital camera that will be activated upon detecting a movement from a PIR sensor. The camera module has an output size of 640×480 in high resolution for each photo with ...

Thieves beware. If you prowl around [Matthew Gaber]’s place, you get soaked by his motion activated super-squirter. Even if he’s not at home, he can aim and fire it remotely using an iPhone app. And ...