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Twitter Hack – DIY Home Automation with Twitter!

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Here’s a great example of someone who used Twitter to control his home appliances.  Of course, this is completely do-able with some meticulous planning.  I do see more and more automation DIYs using Twitter as communication platform for their projects, very useful indeed for our cluttered world.  You will have to add some security measures to protect against hackers though.

The one thing lacking in most of these devices was 2-way communication between Twitter and the device. In all of th

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MisterHouse – Open Source Home Automation with web interface

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Check out this open source home automation software that you can mess around with. Garrett found this site while trying to make some of his home automation DIYs. Cool! Thanks Garrett!

MisterHouse is an open source home automation program. It’s fun, it’s free, and it’s entirely geeky. Written in Perl, it fires events based on time,

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Cool touchscreens for home automation

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These guys have really cool touchscreens if you have the money and the time to build the ultimate home automation system.

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