Turn your home into a smart home for less than dinner

Your home can be smarter than you (no offense). Sleep like a baby with your custom security system watching over your home, wake up to lights softly illuminating the room and walk into the kitchen where your coffee is already brewing. But how?

By turning your passion for computers into a talent construction projects with Raspberry Pi. Ever heard of it? It is a single-board computer with which you can create home automation projects or robots. But you need some knowledge first. Start with this 10-course EDU bundle for $29.99 (reg. $250).

Build your dream house step by step

You should start with the Raspberry Pi for Beginners: Complete Course to Set Up and Learn Your Computer Board how to program with python. Once you learn how to create applications with Arduino, the game is on.

Take courses that teach you how to build a smart security camera, an automated trash can, or an app that can detect a fake ID. These will help you learn the tools and techniques you need before creating your own projects, and we bet you’ll have cooler ideas than these. Maybe something like…

• A version of Siri that controls every aspect of your home.
• A door lock with facial recognition that only allows friends and family to enter.
• Automatic curtains that open at sunrise and close at sunset.

Trying to teach yourself Raspberry Pi via Reddit threads, where you have to guess and copy and paste code snippets from others, isn’t as fun as learning to build projects from scratch with these courses. It will be like being back in school, but fun.

Create your dream home with this Raspberry Pi online courses for $29.99 (reg. $250) – that’s just $3 each.

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