Build Your Own Arduino Powered Automatic Blinds. Thorin Klosowski September 28, 2012 Comments. One of the easiest tricks to keeping a house warm (or cool), is ... or outdoor light.

He used an Arduino Mega and Adafruit Neopixel library combo to add and control the animations. To see steps in detail, check out the Instructable below. It seems worth a shot if you've got the skills.

Use Arduino to handle sensor input and relay control. Pi runs a Python Flask server with a simple UI to toggle GPIO pins via serial commands sent to the Arduino. Use cron jobs on Linux to schedule ...