Open Hardware/Modding: Home Assistant, Arduino, and Linux-Capable RISC-V System
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Ubuntu Blog: Home Assistant tutorial on Ubuntu Core
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to install Home Assistant on Ubuntu Core, then create a motion-activated light automation. This is a great starting point for a secure, open-source smart home. By the end, we’ll have learned the skills we need to create Home Assistant automations of our own with whatever smart home devices we wish.
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Transform the way you organize your home with Arduino | Arduino Blog Smart storage
One of the wonderful things about living in the modern world is having full cupboards, pantries, and wardrobes. But this privilege also comes with downsides — managing all the various items we own can be a headache and can lead to confusion and stress.
The good news is that storage doesn’t have to be a chore. In fact, with the right tech solutions, we can make our storage spaces much smarter, so they actually help us stay more organized and even give us guidance on how to use our space better. Many of these solutions can be built at home with just a few tools.
In this article, we’ll explore the concept of smart storage, and why it’s so useful, and we’ll share a few examples from the Arduino community from people who have built their own smart storage projects.
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Build your own automatic bean sprouter for superfood meals | Arduino Blog
Mung bean sprouts are a very popular food throughout Asia, as they are nutritious and extremely easy to grow. While you can certainly purchase these bean sprouts at your local markets, you can also take advantage of their easy cultivation to grow your own. Doing so is affordable and doesn’t take much time or equipment, but Nico Pretorius’ automated bean sprouter will make the process even easier.
Mung bean sprouts are seeds that are going through the germination process, so cultivating them is a matter of encouraging that germination. There are different techniques in use around the world, but the most efficient involves soaking mung bean seeds in water every few hours. After a few days, you get edible bean sprouts that are suitable for a wide range of culinary dishes. This device automates that watering process to eliminate almost all of the manual labor associated with cultivating bean sprouts.
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Papon Charles' NaxRiscV Offers a Fully-Open, Linux-Capable RISC-V System-on-Chip Design for All - Hackster.io
Hardware engineer Papon Charles has put together a free and open source system-on-chip design, built around the RISC-V instruction set architecture, capable of booting into the RISC-V port of Debian Linux: NaxRiscv.
"[There weren't] many OoO [Out-of-Order] open source soft-cores out there in the wild (Marocchino, RSD, OPA…)," Charles explains of his decision to develop NaxRiscv, an out-of-order superscalar RISC-V core. "The bet was that it was possible to do better in some metrics, and hopefully being good enough to justify in some project the replacement of single-issue/in-order core soft-cores by providing better performance (at the cost of [silicon] area)."