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Products that do what Bitdog – a completely hackable home automation toolset does

Hello Hacker News, My co-founder and I have spent the better part of years developing a completely hackable Home Automation toolset that runs on a Raspberry Pi, or any machine running Linux. With just a Raspberry Pi and a $45 Z-Wave dongle (https://www.amazon.com/Aeotec-Z-Stick-Z-Wave-create-gateway/...), you can run a complete home automation system! Our hub will support any Z-Wave or Z-Wave plus device. We are cloud hosted service that doesn't require you to purchase any proprietary hardware. Our hub software runs on NodeJS and is completely open source. We encourage…

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    Make your home smart with Raspberry Pi

    2017

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    Turn a Raspberry Pi into your home cloud

    2024

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    Your tiny, tiny $15 computer

    2021

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    Looking to get some feedback from the Hacker News community. I wrote the book with a focus on penetration testers and red teamers, but there are great examples for network admins, developers, and blue team defenders as well. You can pick up a copy for free here through May 19, 2019: https://gumroad.com/l/the_cyber_plumbers_handbook/hackernews... Please note, because it's hosted on Gumroad, it does require an email. If you don't want to give out your actual email, check out an anonymous email service. I give it away to students for free, so if you know of one that…

    2019

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    Hi HN! I'm Nick, one of the cofounders of Bitping, and we'd like to share a tool that we've been working on for the past couple of years that lets you test network connectivity from real user devices around the world. We originally were part of a hackathon focused on building a product that is powered by micropayments and we settled on a network that could ping other network devices and users could be paid in fractions of a cent for performing said work. After winning the hackathon, we built an uptime monitoring service and discovered some discrepancies between our data and traditional…

    2024 · developer.bitping.com

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    Never leave your pets alone at home with this smart robot

    2017

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    Smaller, better, and cheaper: $20

    2014

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    http://picirus.com For Startup Weekend Tulsa, we created a small low-power appliance (built on Raspberry Pi) that you connect to your different cloud accounts -- Facebook, Flickr, Dropbox, etc. -- and it downloads a copy of all your stuff every night. I was thinking about all the people I love who share directly to the cloud, without a lot of planning for the case where their Facebook account gets hacked, their Dropbox account has a glitch, or one of these services they love goes out of business suddenly some day. We had a ton of fun building Picirus during Startup Weekend. I highly…

    2012

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    Homation127

    Easy way to create a Smart Home with constructor

    2023

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    Build computer games for your dog or cat

    2019

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    A hackable robot that responds only in GIFs & videos

    2019

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    Zenbo99

    Your smart little companion bot

    2016

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    The smart yard is finally here.

    2017

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    I am not sure if this is fits the HN community, but I am posting it here if people are interested. This is the current iteration of the car: http://i.imgur.com/ko8YBh.jpg Details: I wrote a simple android app that streams the accelerometer data from the phone to the pi over a simple socket. The pi then uses this data to drive the DC motor and the servo motor. Tilting the phone to control the car feels very natural. In this[0] pic you can see the wifi dongle I've used. I am using Adafruit Occidental v0.2[1] as my OS because it has support for my wifi dongle. It also makes some hardware…

    2012

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    Roomba’s first robotic mopping machine

    2016

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    Calaos88

    Open source home automation

    2015

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    Bixi119

    Control any smart device by simply waving your hand!

    2016

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    Robot for Home Monitoring

    2021

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    2020 · github.com

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    A simpler way to a smarter home

    2016

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    Run your business with HubSpot, Figma, and more

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    Roomba99

    A WiFi-connected robot vacuum by iRobot

    2015

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