38C3 Lightningtalks

A tiny self-contained piece of (home)automation infrastructure
29.12.2024 , Bühne HUFF
Sprache: English

The tiny platform I'd like to present is the result of doing things with colored LEDs, lights, motors, relays, and sensors for over 10 years, as a single person - for fun, art, theater, exhibitions, homes and offices.
Such installations are expected to last, so I had to find a way to minimize accumulating technical debt with every new idea. I wanted rather experimental installations to be quickly to set up, easy to tweak and debug, be accessible for end users, and still remain highly efficient to maintain for years, with zero external dependencies. And of course, all open source, as I believe infrastructure should always be.
By now this has become an easy to install (or even build from scatch) OpenWrt/Linux image, running on Raspberry Pi (oldest ones are enough) down to post stamp sized Omega2.


The talk will give you a quick overview of the features and show some examples of what can be done with this ready-to-use toolset, with nothing external to the target device except for a LAN and a browser.

While none of the features are particularily unique (for example there are lots of addressable LED driving libraries and projects), the wide variety of automation building blocks and dense integration into a tiny overall footprint, probably are.

Of course there will be a feature list and links for download ;-) But I also present this because it is my attempt to stay independent by building my tiny platform in a world increasingly consisting of huge ones.