Home Automation Hacks

This hacker used the power of his iPhone to be able to control a TV lift in his home.� It's a pretty simple device (obviously it just conceals or displays his flat screen TV), but iPhone control makes everything more impressive.� Especially...

Using a dirt simple software application, you can easily remotely control your PC to shutdown, restart or logoff.� The software is called TweetMyPC which connects to a dummy twitter account you create solely for the task of controlling your...

Like most people, we're huge fans of home automation.� We've even covered quite a few ways people have used Twitter to automate your home.� This time, however, we'll be automating our homes by managing SmartHome's X10 home automation modules...

Imagine this... On your way home from work, you send the Twitter command "Prep movie 15�, to your robot.� Your robot reads the command, waits for a bit, pops some corn and starts a movie.� Build your own twitter powered roboslave and...

Twitter has become one of the most popular social media sites, but its uses extend far beyond the world of the internet. By, interfacing physical hardware with Twitter these projects have created fantastic hacks allowing electronics to react to...

This USB BB gun sports automatic firing, manual reloading, and the ability to fire based on commands given remotely from a PC. This is possible since the weapon actually packs a webcam on the barrel, allowing users to login via their computer,...

Apparently, Tivo has an open port which can be accessed via Telnet. This means by using the old school network protocol, you can configure your Tivo by taking advantage of its built in home automation system.� Check out more about this...

Using Twitter, a new social networking site, you can set up your laptop and connect it to your light switches (or any other electrical device) and control the device by sending text messages to your twitter account. It's a fairly simple setup...

Learn how to design a DIY audio streamer for your home. You can transmit your favorite tunes wirelessly from your computer to all other rooms throughout the home. It's definitely much more affordable than installing a hard wire house wide speaker...