Adafruit Holiday Gift Guide 2016: IoT Projects! #IoTuesday
by Jessie Mae
We’ve created a gift guide for lovers of Iot! You can make any of these projects to give as a gift, or you can order all the parts needed and gift them, so that your loved one can make their own project. Here are a few projects you can make with some electronics and tutorials from adafruit!
If none of these strike your fancy, take a look at the Adafruit IO section of our learning system for tons more IoT projects!
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We spend a third of our lives sleeping, and the quality of our sleep can have a big impact on how we feel during the day. Of course, being that we’re asleep during that time, it makes it hard to accurately gauge how comfortable we are at the moment. Sleep studies are one way to get accurate data – but they’re a big deal to run! Could we DIY?
Monitoring a sleep environment combined with heart rate data can tell us a lot about our needs. Here are some things that Schluff can do to help you maximize your nighty rest.
Temperature
– The ideal sleeping temperature is claimed to be on the cooler side near 65F. Sleeping at temperatures too far from that should result in reduced duration and quality of sleep.
Humidity
– Ideally 45%, but anywhere between 30-50% humidity can offer a good nights rest.
Light / Lux – You want these both to read zero during sleep. Recording light levels through the night can help pinpoint regular light disturbances (car headlights, full moon, porch lights, etc).
Noise
– Did something go bump in the night? Is it quieter tonight than other nights? Did you wake yourself up again from snoring too loud? Maybe your partner is the noise maker?
Heart Rate
– How low can you go? Ideal heart rates will vary from person to person, but generally a low resting heart rate means you are recovered and ready to go. A higher than normal heart rate indicates that you need additional rest. HR can also be used to indicate different states of sleep with REM having an irregular HR and the light and deep having lower more stable heart rates.
Get a list of all the components and full project details here!
DIY ESP8266 Home Security with Lua and MQTT
This DIY home security system is powered by a Raspberry Pi 3!
One of the things I’ve noticed about home security systems is how expensive they are! The monetization model for home security is to not worry about making money on the hardware but sell the monitoring service at high rates. This is needed to support call centers for monitoring all the devices on a 24×7 basis. I’d love to have an alarm system, but they’re prohibitively expensive. We Makers can certainly do better!
The goal of the system is to detect doors or windows opening. If you don’t expect the door or window to open, you know something is up. This tutorial only talks about the door/window sensors and the alarm sequence. There are all kinds of things you can add to this alarm system once you have it constructed: smoke/fire sensors, carbon monoxide detectors, and security cameras, to name a few.
Make your toilet bowl glow with data from Adafruit IO!
This project is built with a Feather Huzzah ESP8266 WiFi microcontroller and a 8mm NeoPixel LED. You can 3D print a case and a LED clip to hold the hardware near the toilet bowl. By connecting to Adafruit IO the ESP8266 can listen for color and animation commands that are sent from other services like If This Then That (IFTTT), Zapier, and more. You’ll have your toilet pulsing and flashing different colors from the internet in almost no time!
Remote controlled door lock using a fingerprint sensor & Adafruit IO
Smart locks are now widely available, and allow users to open & close a door by the press of a button on their smartphone. Some locks are even connected to the cloud, and allows the user to open/close it remotely, and share the access to the door with other people.
In this project, we are going to build our own DIY version of such a smart lock, that can be controlled from anywhere in the world, as we’ll connect it to Adafruit IO.
However, we’ll add a twist in the project: we will actually also allow the user to control the door lock by using their fingerprint. And as the fingerprint sensor will also be connected to the Adafruit IO platform, it will be really easy to make both devices talk to each other. Let’s dive in!
See full project details here!
Don’t forget to take a look at the Adafruit IO section of our learning system for tons more IoT projects!
We’re excited for the Holiday Season here at Adafruit, and we can’t wait to share that excitement with you! Stay tuned into the blog where you will find new, handpicked gift guides five days a week from November 7 through December 23rd, 2016 alongside holiday themed tutorials and builds!
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