How to Build Your Own Smart Home in an Afternoon

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Learn how you can easily build three smart home projects on a Raspberry Pi using Python and PubNub. You'll learn about the required hardware, setup, and development needed to create these IoT projects to begin creating your own smart home experience.

This project contains all the code needed to implement:

1.) Light detector with Phototransistor

2.) Door detector with conductive tin foil pads

3.) Lamp Relay Switch to wirelessly control any ordinary lamp.

To get started, create your PubNub account and follow the tutorial to begin creating your own smarthome projects.