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PC Magazine
November 2, 2004
Troy Dreier |
Your Automated Home Control your household appliances from a PC, over the Web, or via remote. We review four starter packages.   |
Home Toys
April 2004
Paul Custodio |
Affordable Home Automation Solutions The following three examples are simple home solutions that can be implemented in nearly any home on nearly any budget, using equipment available from X10.com. |
PC Magazine
October 5, 2004
Bill Howard |
Home Automation that Works Zensys Z-Wave, a 908.4-MHz, UPnP-compliant mesh-networking protocol, is a home automation system that really works. |
PC Magazine
March 2, 2004
Bill Howard |
Master of the House Home automation technology is fun and affordable. Here's how to get started. |
Home Toys
February 2003
Craig Chadwick |
X10 Debugging Tips If you use X10, you will inevitably experience some of the problems described here. Hopefully this information will help you resolve the problem as quickly and painlessly as possible. |
Home Toys
October 2002
David Steele |
A Low Cost Home Automation Controller Have you ever wanted to automate a function in your home, but just could not justify the cost of the do-everything home automation controllers? Elk Products' Magicmodule family of programmable controllers offer a good home automation control package at a reasonable price. |
Home Toys
October 2005
Michael Breton |
Automation in the Digital Home A detailed account of the installation of a home automation system for an 8,000 square foot home. |
Home Toys
February 2005
Gary Drake |
Remote Control Your Home Via the Internet Using Web Services with Inexpensive AC Wireless Controllers These remote devices offer a solution for remotely sensing an event of interest, such as a door opening, window, etc. when it's not convenient to run ethernet or other wires to it. With the client software from BroadbandSentry, the configuration is set on the web to sense a change to the status pin chosen. |
The Motley Fool
February 24, 2011
Anand Chokkavelu |
Rising Star Buys: Radio Shack and Best Buy These bricks and mortar electronics stores are cheap. |
Entrepreneur
January 2008
Amanda C. Kooser |
In iControl Go online to keep your company under lock and key. |
PC Magazine
August 17, 2004
Bill Howard |
Geek-Free Home Automation One of life's ironies is that those of us who can dim the living-room lights and switch the stereo to soft jazz at the press of a single button are probably the geeks who can't get a date and take advantage of the romantic atmosphere. |
Home Toys
August 2004 |
Are PLC Gremlins Causing Problems? Here's How to Send Them Packing! You don't need an extensive power line communications (PLC)/X-10 system to encounter gremlins --- those seemingly inexplicable little glitches that keep certain signals from successfully arriving at certain receivers. |
PC Magazine
January 31, 2007
Jeremy A. Kaplan |
Control Yourself Three homeowners jump into the world of home automation to see if the "wow" factor is really worth the hassle. |
Home Toys
June 2003 |
Webcomodore: the Ultimate Energy Cost Buster Web services are not only used for entertainment or information technology but also for building/home automation or for energy management. Shovon's Internet-ready Webcomodore product line utilizes the power of the Internet to help users to administer energy spending. |
Home Toys
October 2003
Kevin Moss |
The Future of Home Automation on the PC This article discusses home automation, what's available for the PC today, what we can do and what we can't. |
PC Magazine
September 2, 2003
Bruce Brown |
Digital Drumming Learning to play the drums is easy and inexpensive with the realistic Pacific Digital DrumXtreme DX-100 USB Digital Drum Kit. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2006
Stephen Cass |
Hardware for Your Software Radio What's going to be the next big thing in wireless technology? One bet is software-defined radio, and thanks to a piece of hardware called the Universal Software Radio Peripheral, or USRP, you can get right to the bleeding edge today. |
PC World
November 2002
Becky Waring |
Microsoft Goes Wi-Fi Trouble-free installation and fast performance mark Microsoft's wireless networking hardware. |
Home Toys
December 2005
Andrew Reed |
Superna Home Automation Systems Provide Flexibility, Security for Smart Homes With a push of a button, you upload and store the set-up information to every Superna product connected to the network, rendering each one completely independent of the others (in case one device in the network fails). |
Home Toys
February 2005
Findlay, Lynch & McCormack |
Home Automation Portal Appliance Be it for security, device control, climate control or exterior control, the home automation market continues to grow and thrive. The Home Automation Portal Appliance will soon become an essential addition to most home automation projects of any complexity. |
Home Toys
February 2004
Chris Smith |
Advanced X10 Outdoor Automated Lighting It took a while, but I figured a way to solve my needs to "smartly" control my outdoor lighting with X10 that I'd like to share. Basically, I found a way to get different modes of control for my unintelligent outdoor sensors based on time of day periods. |
Home Toys
October 2004
Gary Drake |
No cost/low cost Web-based monitoring system using your computer Now everyone with a Internet enabled computer has the makings of a home, vacation home or office monitoring system. |
PC World
January 28, 2008
Michael S. Lasky |
SoundTech Vocal Trainer Kit SoundTech's Vocal Trainer kit will help you unleash your inner Pavarotti. |
U.S. CPSC
July 14, 2004 |
NETGEAR Inc. Recall of Wall Plug Ethernet Bridges The plastic housing on these units can detach, posing a shock hazard. |
PC Magazine
September 21, 2004
Molly K. McLaughlin |
Add Storage, Simply Looking for an easier way to upgrade or augment your storage? The ADS Dual Link Drive Kit grows with you. |
PC World
October 2002
Stephen Manes |
The Hopelessly Tangled World of Wires Wireless is still a luxury. But why is it so hard to connect things with wires? |
PC World
August 14, 2001
Douglas F. Gray |
Palm Customers Share Syncing Complaints Lawsuit expands to claim static electricity and voltage problems... |
PC Magazine
October 19, 2004
Troy Dreier |
Do-It-Yourself Home Security Guard your castle with networked cameras. We review 4 systems that let you do the installation on your own. |
Home Toys
June 2005 |
X10 Irrigation Control Spring is here and we have a home automation idea we'd like to spring on you: X10 Irrigation Control with the WGL Rain8 Irrigation Controller. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2009
David Schnieder |
If You Build It, Santa Will Come Kits for building musical pencils, Theremins, crystal radios, and shortwave radios |
PC Magazine
June 1, 2008
Loyd Case |
Make a Drive USB-Attachable Save old data from a rescued drive by connecting it to another PC via USB. |
InternetNews
September 1, 2010 |
Western Digital Dives Into Pure-Play Networking Western Digital continues efforts to diversity its portfolio, now launching a networking kit that could port video content to the TV. |
Home Toys
June 2003
Don Marquardt |
"JEANNIE": The House that Listens Home Automation can be both very useful and affordable to even the modest home owner. You can start small and add functions as you get time and money. But if you're building your home, you can go all-out with the necessary equipment for networking and automation relatively inexpensively. |
Home Toys
February 2005
Thanh Nguyen |
What is the LCN Installation Bus? The installation bus is a new way to electrically wire buildings that is more cost effective and offers many new functionalities over the conventional method. The LCN installation bus distinguishes itself through performance and cost effectiveness compared to the rest. |
Home Toys
June 2002
Ant Skelton |
Marmitek AWM2 Micro-Module The Marmitek AWM2 micro-module is the first to market of the new breed of modules supporting ACT's A10 (Advanced X10) protocol. The AWM2 has two switch inputs: the first controls the built-in appliance module, and the second is transmitted as X10 on the mains wiring. |
PC World
June 26, 2002
Dan Neel |
IBM Helps Small Businesses Go Mobile Big Blue introduces four starter kits featuring the hardware and software small companies need to go wireless. |
Home Toys
February 2005
Barbara Holbrook |
Home Automation for the Rest of us With the software's Jetsons-era functionality, Central Home Automation Director (CHAD) is great for people that want to control their home or apartment with minimum amount of fuss. |
Home Toys
April 2006 |
Programmable Logic Controller -- Hardware The PLC is a versatile product that has many hardware options to accommodate the large number of different electrical interfaces out there. The PLC is modular in design so that one can mix and match the input/output (I/O) hardware requirements to meet the needs of the project. |
Home Toys
August 2002
Dan Quigley |
Getting Ready for the New Face of Home Automation Integrators can now take advantage of a new class of device-independent software that easily integrates multivendor installations, delivering the information and services consumers want while shielding them from complexity and unwanted intrusions. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2008
Courtney E. Howard |
The Joule-Thief Harvests Vibration Energy to Power Devices in the Field Engineers at AdaptivEnergy have developed and unveiled an innovative power technology that harvests and converts energy from vibration into usable electricity. |
Fast Company
March 1, 2007
Brian T. Horowitz |
Less Wire, More Juice Tired of lugging separate chargers for your smartphone, iPod, digital camera, and other gadgets? Leave them all at home in favor of a multicharging kit such as Malleable Devices' kwikSynCh. |
Home Toys
October 2004 |
30 year anniversary: Dave Rye of X10 X10 is regarded as the De Facto standard for Home Automation. |
