The dream of interoperability is still just that.
Ikea’s new smart home collection is entirely Matter-compatible
Ikea’s affordable smart home devices will now work with other brands.
What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like
Innovative home designs find ways to combine living and work spaces
Experience sharing: 3D real-time representation of my smart home (HomeTwin under Unreal Engine 5 & Home Assistant)
Hello everyone, Here is a new milestone reached, once again with the help of AI: transitioning my smart home representation from VRED (https://youtu.be/IqkmNFBgtds) to Unreal Engine for a much better rendering: Watch the video on YouTube HomeTwin is the real-time 3D replica of my smart home running on Unreal Engine 5.8, connected to Home Assistant via MQTT. 1. The House: A Mirror of Home Assistant 3 Floors that can be displayed separately (using buttons 0 / 1 / 2) to view the interior. ...
Smart home startup Brilliant has run out of cash, which could mean lights out for its light switches
Things aren’t so brilliant for this smart home company.
Smart home devices should work without the internet — Do Code That Matters
Rule one is that nothing in my house needs a vendor's server to work. The rest of the rules I follow after ten years of home automation, plus both talks I gave on it, slide by slide.
Home Assistant
Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.
Home - Industrialised Construction
Industrialised Construction explores both the physical and digital dimensions of construction, covering innovations in platform-based design, kits of parts, design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) and offsite production, as well as emerging digital capabilities including robotics, augmented and virtual reality, automation, data-driven tools, connectivity and the Internet of Things.
ajfriesen
A home for my projects, thoughts, and ideas. Home Automation with Home Assistant, Linux things, building a Home Lab and more.
Rethinking the Smart City: Democratizing Urban Technology - RLS-NYC
Following the celebration of the “creative city” (as described by Richard Florida), the “smart city” has become the new flavor of the month—and a brand. It makes clever use of resources, and it attracts money, corporate power, and private industries. Offering us cheap, effective solutions to social and political problems, the smart city is functional, […]
under the hood
This week I’ve been thinking about what it’s like for a new generation to make things with computers. When we were talking in Berlin, Luce made a point that...
My house has a live 3D digital twin, driven by Home Assistant
Hi everyone! I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on: instead of a dashboard made of cards, a live 3D replica of my real house that runs in the browser and is driven entirely by Home Assistant. ## What it does - **Everything you see is real.** Lights, awnings, the garage door, smoke and leak sensors, the fridges’ temperatures, even the rain and wind from my weather station. If something moves in the 3D house, it’s because a real sensor said so. - **You can control the h...
Robot startups are trying everything they can think of to get more data
Free apartment cleanings, exoskeletons, 100 robots in a warehouse...
Breakthrough Energy | Home
Empowering innovators to build the future of energy
Why Remote Work Is So Hard—and How It Can Be Fixed
The challenges aren’t just technological. They’re managerial.
Home
Superbloom leverages design as a transformative practice to shift power in the tech ecosystem. Read more about our work and programs.
If you've ever shopped at IKEA, you've had slop in your life. Did it really feel worse than artisanal furniture? Chances are, it solved your problem, and you moved on with your life. So it will be with most consumer software. youtube.com/watch?v=0h8vAGCiRX0
How IKEA Mastered Furniture
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