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 [...]
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 [...]
Today on the Make Magazine blog was a posting for a “Weekend Project: USB Motion Detector (PDF)”. This is the project from Ken Delahoussaye from the article in Make: Volume 16. You can download the PDF of this article from here (PDF file). But also “KipKay” created a video posted in the blog that you [...]
Today on the Make blog was a posting (it was from the Make forum) by “pmgeahan”. It talks about the U401 use in Make#16:
