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Home Assistant: Using Infrared, Motors, and Relays

In this article, we are going to combine ODROIDs with a little bit of hardware and Home Assistant, so that we can start converting non-smart appliances to "smart" appliances. We'll be working with wires, doing a bit of soldering, connecting relays, and in some cases working with mains voltage, so  ▶

ODROID-GO

GO and Be Qwiic About It!

For just a paltry $1.50 investment, you can open up an entire ecosystem of sensors, tools, actuators, and displays for your ODROID-GO AND you will still have four GPIO pins left over for other projects  ▶

Android

Having Fun with GPIO on Android

The ODROID-C1/C1+, ODROID-C2, and ODROID-XU4 have on-board GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) pins that allow the control of external devices through software. In order to access the GPIO port properly, you must install the Android Marshmallow version 2.8 image or higher on the ODROID-C2, the Android KitKat version 3.2 image or  ▶

ODROID-XU4

Low Cost Water Cooling for your Single Board Computer: Get The Maximum Speed From Your ODROID

SBC water cooling is not new and others have implemented designs using off the shelf components for the ODROID-XU4 and other SBC. Some implementations have already been covered in ODROID Magazine in the past. December 2016 https://magazine.odroid.com/wp-content/uploads/ODROID-Magazine-201612.pdf July 2018 https://magazine.odroid.com/article/liquid-cooling-part-1-cluster/ https://magazine.odroid.com/article/liquid-cooling-part-2-server/ The focus of this project was initially to make  ▶