Take three NRF24L0+ radios, two Arduino Nanos, and a Raspberry Pi. Add a bored student and a dorm room at Rice University. What you get is the RRAD: Rice Ridiculously Automated Dorm. [Jordan Poles] built a modular system inspired by BRAD (the Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm).
RRAD has three types of nodes:
- Actuation nodes – Allows external actuators like relays or solenoids
- Sensory nodes – Reports data from sensors (light, temperature, motion)
- Hub nodes – Hosts control panel, records data, provides external data interfaces
The hub also allows [Jordan] to control things with his Android phone with Tasker. He has the Arduino and Raspberry Pi code on GitHub if you want to ridiculously automate something of your own. You’d probably want to adapt it to your dorm room, house, or RV, though.
[Jordan] continues to work on the project and promises to have voice recognition and other features, soon. We cover a lot of home automation projects including some others described as ridiculous. The video below shows BRAD, the inspiration for RRAD.
Filed under: Android Hacks, Arduino Hacks, home hacks, Raspberry Pi
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