Home Automation Imagination Jump Start

May 12, 2009

Guest Blog by Harry What do you think about when you hear the words “home automation”?  I’m guessing you probably think about lighting control.  Perhaps you think about temperature control.  Or perhaps you think about your every need being automatically tended so all you have to do is stare at the T.V., munch on some [...]

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USBPIR – USB Motion Detection

May 2, 2009

The USBPIR exclusively available from CircuitGizmos is a passive infra-red motion detector that can be connected to your PC (Windows/Linux/OSX) via USB. The CGUSPPIR module assembly is a motion detector module combined with a U421. The module detects changes in the field of infra-red that is “sees”, and interprets that as motion. This project uses [...]

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