Regulating Temperature Using Reinforcement Learning

Check out this repo to see how we’ve applied it. While building our home garden controller, Kindbot, the chief objective was to maintain ideal environmental conditions. Plants thrive under stable temperatures which is often a challenge for those running powerful grow lights in a small space. Let’s consider a generic microcontroller connected to a environmetal sensor breakout. Furthermore, let’s assume you can control a heating/cooling appliance via the microcontroller’s GPIO pins or through communication with a smart plug over the LAN....

 · 8 min · Terry Rodriguez & Salma Mayorquin

Alexa, where are my keys?

Alexa works well for information retrieval tasks and controlling devices on your wireless home networks. We want to use the home network to track our valuables or keys. We’ll hack cheap bluetooth low energy beacons for the network range and battery longevity and build a smart application so that Alexa knows where we left the keys. Hacking Bluetooth beacons We’ll start by exploring what we can do with cheap bluetooth beacons....

 · 7 min · Terry Rodriguez & Salma Mayorquin