Product Description

Automate anything in the home, from climate control to security!

Computer technology has caught up with home automation, and it’s now easy and inexpensive to automate everything in a house—including lighting, security, appliances, entertainment, and environmental conditions—and here’s how to do it! This well-illustrated resource offers 25 complete home automation projects that require only basic household tools and the instructions found within its pages.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #306124 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

From the Publisher
Want to have your martini freshly shaken, poured, and waiting for you next
to the perfectly warm and bubbly hot tub when you come home from a hard
day's work? This book is for YOU!

From the Back Cover
TURN YOUR HOME SWEET HOME INTO AN AUTOMATED, EVIL GENIUS
PARADISE!

Your home may be your castle-but can it cook your dinner? Well, with the
help of 25 Home Automation Projects for the Evil Genius, you can teach it
to do just that, along with dozens of other affordable, enjoyable things
that will transform your humble abode into a wickedly automated living
environment.

But fear not-you don't need an engineering degree to complete the projects
in this book. That's because technology maven Jerri L. Ledford skillfully
provides you with a firm understanding of the basic wiring, networking, and
equipment demands for home automation. She then leads you step by step
through each application, offering clearly worded and heavily diagramed
guidance that will truly satisfy your inner Evil Genius.

With the help of just a few household tools, you'll be able to bring
info-age automation to:

Indoor and outdoor lighting
Security and surveillance
Climate regulation
Entertainment systems
Personal reminders
Plant care
Remote monitoring of kids and pets
Keyless entry
Wireless TV
And many more!
Plus, you'll gain access to discounts from a variety of home automation
product manufacturers, to make your projects even more economical. With 25
Home Automation Projects for the Evil Genius, easy living is now
automatic!

About the Author
Jerri Ledford (Magee, MS) is a freelance writer with more than 10 years experience. She’s had more than 700 articles appear in publications such as Intelligent Enterprise, Network World, Information Security Magazine, TechNet Magazine, and others. In addition to covering all aspects of business technology, Jerri writes and teaches technology courses for consumers at both Hewlett-Packard and CNET, and has written several consumer books, including The Rational Guide to Preventing Identity Theft (Rational Press, 2005), Cut the Cord! The Consumer’s Guide to VoIP (Course Technology – a division of PTR, 2005), and The Personal Cybersecurity Bible (Course Technology, 2005.)

Customer Reviews

25 Home Automation Projects for the Evil Genius
I bought this book hoping that it would show me the DIY way of assembling some of the projects described. Unfortunately I was let down. Badly. This book describes they way you install a purchased device, ie Keyless entry - Buy a keyless entry door handle and here is how you install it. Not buy this solenoid, this relay, this RF transceiver and this is how you assemble them.

Also all devices detailed in each product are American; admittedly you could buy them over the web but still not very satisfactory...

Anyone want to buy it off me???