Download or read book Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 30 written by Mark Frauenfelder and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first magazine devoted entirely to do-it-yourself technology projects presents its 30th quarterly edition for people who like to tweak, disassemble, recreate, and invent cool new uses for technology. Until recently, home automation was an unfulfilled promise -- systems were gimmicky, finicky, user-hostile, or potentially unsecure. But today, thanks to a new crop of devices and technologies, home automation is useful, fun, and maker-friendly. Using smartphones, wireless networks, the internet, simple microcontrollers, and even gesture recognition, DIY-style Smart Homes can now do everything promised and more, for much less -- and MAKE shows you how in Volume 30.