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IQ Jar is a tech site with tutorials, guides, presentations of software and hardware projects and all kind of other useful bits of information which will stretch your mind and broaden your creativity.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 17 )
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Let There Be Light! …when There’s Motion
The usual way of operating the lights in your home today is that when you step into a room you turn the lights on by pressing a switch (usually a wall switch)... Read more
Posted on 20 January 2016 COMPUTING, TECH -
A Simple Home Security System with Domoticz and the Fibaro Motion (multi) Sensor
The Domoticz home automation software contains, among many other nice features, complete support for a home security system. Any security system consists of fiv... Read more
Posted on 19 January 2016 COMPUTING, TECH -
Using the Milight / LimitlessLED / EasyBulb Wireless Smart LED Lights with...
In the past we have talked about how you can control the MiLight / LimitlessLED / EasyBulb wireless LED bulbs using a Raspberry Pi and a command line utility.... Read more
Posted on 18 January 2016 COMPUTING, TECH -
Home Automation with Raspberry Pi, Z-Wave Devices and Domoticz
Home automation is something that has only recently become widely available and, as all new things, it is trying to develop in many different directions. Read more
Posted on 11 January 2016 COMPUTING, TECH -
Domoticz on Raspberry Pi
Introduction to DomoticzDomoticz is a very nice free home automation software. It is not only very functional, but it also has a good looking user interface. Read more
Posted on 16 February 2015 COMPUTING, TECH -
Configuring the MiLight/LimitlessLED/EasyBulb Wireless Bridge
We have seen in a previous article how nice it is to control the lights in your home using the Raspberry Pi and MiLight/LimitlessLED/EasyBulb Wi-Fi enabled LED... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2015 COMPUTING, TECH -
Wake up Gently to Gradually Increasing Light
The problemDon’t you just hate it when you’re in a deep, relaxing sleep, dreaming of beautiful things… resting… not even remotely close to waking up… and then... Read more
Posted on 16 January 2015 COMPUTING, TECH -
Raspberry Pi Rebooting Itself When It Becomes Unreachable from Outside Networks
IntroductionIf you have a Raspberry Pi in a remote location, far away from where you are, then it’s important to be able to reach the Pi from the distance... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2014 COMPUTING, TECH -
Automatic Communication Between Two Raspberry Pi Computers (Linux Machines)...
IntroductionThis article describes how two Raspberry Pi computers can communicate with each other automatically through the SSH (Secure Shell) protocol. Read more
Posted on 03 February 2014 COMPUTING, TECH -
Home Automation: Using the Raspberry Pi to Control the Lights in Your Home Over...
The problemEver since I can remember, I have always wanted to control the lights in my home from a central location and in an automated manner, namely from a... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2013 COMPUTING, TECH -
Building an 8x8x8 LED Cube – The Driving Circuit
In this article we are going to take a detailed look at how to build the driving circuit for the 8x8x8 LED cube. In other words we are going to design and... Read more
Posted on 13 April 2013 COMPUTING, TECH -
Building an 8x8x8 LED Cube – Introduction
What is an LED cube?An LED cube is exactly what the name suggests: LEDs arranged in the form of a cube. Why is that good? Because you can run very nice 3D... Read more
Posted on 12 March 2013 COMPUTING, TECH -
Sending Emails from the Raspberry Pi
There are many cases when it can be very useful to be able to send emails from the Raspberry Pi to arbitrary recipients. This is not the same as having a real... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2013 TECH -
Raspberry Pi GPIO Control Center
The Raspberry Pi GPIO Control Center application lets you control your Raspberry Pi‘s GPIO pins in some convenient, advanced ways. Read more
Posted on 03 February 2013 TECH -
Live Webcam Feed from Your Raspberry Pi
If you have a Raspberry Pi and a compatible USB webcam, you can easily create a live online feed over HTTP. In other words, you can use your cam connected to... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2013 TECH -
Raspberry Pi Binary LED Clock
Binary clocks show the time in an unconventional format. They display the hours, minutes and sometimes even seconds as numbers represented in the binary... Read more
Posted on 30 January 2013 TECH -
Controlling the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO Pins from a Web Browser
Wouldn’t it be cool to control things in your home from a web browser? I mean turn on and off the lights, adjust the music volume, open the gate or the garage... Read more
Posted on 27 January 2013 TECH