All articles in the Cave
AAIMI
Home Automation software articles
- AAIMI Home Automation 0.9 is here
- AAIMI Home Automation hardware recap
- Download and setup the AAIMI Home Automation system
- Configure rooms and devices
- Run AAIMI Room Control
- Control AAIMI Home Automation part 1
- Control AAIMI Home Automation part 2
- View long-term Home Automation data
- AAIMI Home Automation Advanced Usage
Home Automation hardware articles
- Build a cheap and easy light-sensor
- Use a Movement sensor with your Raspberry Pi
- Build a Relay Circuit to Control AC Power Outlets and Lights
- Build a Relay-Driver Circuit or Uni-directional Motor Controller
- Connect and Operate a 240V Relay from your Raspberry Pi or Arduino
- Build a cheap and easy temperature-sensor
- Use a Smoke and Gas Sensor with an Arduino
- Build a panning security camera from old junk.
- Build a Home Automation Base Station from recycled parts
- Updated: Build a Home Automation Base Station from recycled parts
- Mini home-automation satellite
- Wireless home-automation satellite: Part One
AAIMI GPIO
AAIMI GPS Mapper
AaimiClip
Projects
- AAIMI RFID Alarm
- AAIMI Email
- AAIMI Server Dog
- AaimiSiteMod: A bulk-webpage-modification tool
- Latest AAIMI projects
- New private forum/social-media platform from AAIMI
- Build a rotating sensor-mast
- Build a 5 amp portable power supply
- The PowerStation2: 5-channel benchtop power supply
- Build a dual-battery monitor for Arduino, Part One
- Build a dual-battery monitor for Arduino, Part Two
Tutorials
- Resize an image in Microsoft Paint
- Use Do buttons from IFTTT to automate email messages
- Set up home-automation geo-fencing with IFTTT and Gmail
- Use Python web requests to IFTTT send email alerts
- Replace capacitors in a TV
- How to Use Stepper Motors from Old Printers
- How to install Python on Windows
- How to use Python with IDLE
- Python version
- Connect and run a movement sensor with an Arduino
- Run a distance sensor from your Arduino
- Connect an Arduino to a Raspberry Pi via a serial connection
- Use a relay with an Arduino
- Determine Your Version of Windows
- Quick Linux Tips
- How to Stop Programs Starting when Windows Starts
- Build an Adjustable Power Supply Using LM317 Regulators
- Make a Multi-Channel Power Supply With 7800ct Serial Regulators
- How to Move the My Documents Folder
- How to fix slow network transfer
Recycling
- Teardown: Canon MP780 inkjet printer
- Teardown: CRT TV
- Teardown:HP CP1515n laser printer
- Teardown: Brushless DC Motor
- Teardown: Rear projection TV
- Teardown: LCD Monitor
- Teardown: HP 1400 series inkjet printer
- Teardown: Hair Straightener
- Teardown: Clothes Dryer
- What's inside an oscillating halogen heater
Blogs
- Cave gets HTTPS
- Activate Windows 10 with a Windows 7 product key from another computer
- Mobilizing the cave
- New Raspberry Pi 2 brings potential GUI programming options
- Laptop Repair Tips
- User Accounts
- Cave Madness: Send your recycling bin to hell
- Python Password Analyzer
- Estimcad modules moving to ControlCadGUI
Archived Articles
These articles cover older versions of programs featured on the Cave.
They are here for historical purposes. Newer versions of these programs and articles are in the main Project section.
Old Home Automation software articles
- AAIMI Home Automation 0.88 Features
- AAIMI Home Automation 0.85 Features
- AAIMI Home Automation 0.83 Features
- AAIMI Home Automation 0.8 Features
- AAIMI Home Automation 0.7 is here
- AAIMI Home Automation 0.65 is here
- AAIMI Home Automation 0.6 is here
- AAIMI Home Automation 0.55 is available now
- AAIMI Home Automation 0.5 is available now
- AAIMI Home Automation 0.4 is available now
- AAIMI Home Automation 0.3 is here!
- AAIMI Home Automation 0.2 is here!
- New features in AAIMI Room Control 0.2
- AAIMI Progam Overview
QuickFloor
- QuickFloor Introduction
- Download and use QuickFloor Creator
- QuickFloor Base, a ready-made home-automation GUI
- Use QuickFloor Base to control lights
CircuitDraw
- Introduction to CircuitDraw 0.2
- Using CircuitDraw 0.2 to create electronics diagrams
- Adding secondary components on CircuitDraw 0.2
- Customize CircuitDraw
CircuitDraw 0.1:
- Introduction to CircuitDraw
- Using CircuitDraw to create electronics diagrams
- Adding secondary components on CircuitDraw
- Customize and personalize CircuitDraw
- What to expect from CircuitDraw 0.2 and 0.3