Hacking an IKEA mirror [part 4]

  This is how the final product looks like on my desk.  I now need to write a python script which will translate  various button combinations into actions. Stay tuned…

Hacking an IKEA mirror [part 3]

Step one was to draw the positions of the buttons on a piece of paper. I secured the drawing with some tape.  I first drilled pilot holes, then used a 16mm metal drillbit to widen the hole.   A step drillbit was then used to accurately widen the button holes to the right size.   An […]

heimcontrol.js

Home automation in Node.js with Raspberry PI and Arduino. Source: heimcontrol.js A very interesting project. You can skip the node.js compilation by just using apt-get. You have to compile mongodb from source, which takes ages…