Having used many of the commercial systems, their biggest downfalls are proprietary hardware and needing a certified tech to do simple maintenance and additions.
You can easily wire up an entire house with sensors and actuators using fairly inexpensive and abundantly available electronics. The problem is controlling them all, which is one of the reasons we started working on Touch Control System. TCS is a 3D game engine built for controlling electronics.
In our very first video, we mounted a touchscreen in a wall. This shows what TCS looks like in a home automation environment: https://hyperplaneinteractive....
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Having used many of the commercial systems, their biggest downfalls are proprietary hardware and needing a certified tech to do simple maintenance and additions.
You can easily wire up an entire house with sensors and actuators using fairly inexpensive and abundantly available electronics. The problem is controlling them all, which is one of the reasons we started working on Touch Control System. TCS is a 3D game engine built for controlling electronics.
In our very first video, we mounted a touchscreen in a wall. This shows what TCS looks like in a home automation environment:
https://hyperplaneinteractive....
Lots more stuff on our blog:
https://hyperplaneinteractive....
You can download the current Alpha release from the homepage on our website, free for personal/educational use:
https://hyperplaneinteractive....
In our next release, we will have project examples for voice recognition using the Microsoft Kinect and neural networks using FANN.
Check it out!
TCS is a 3D game engine (free for personal/educational use) built for creating interfaces to electronic projects.
You could take some Arduino boards and wire up a 3D interface to turn LEDs on or drive motors.
Alpha version available on the website:https://hyperplaneinteractive.com
TCS and Arduino: Sensing Voltage tutorial
Launching Model Rockets with TCS