Hackster’s Handpicked Projects of the Week May 12, 2017

Create a simple home automation system using Arduino and an Android phone.

A DIY Google Home using your Raspberry Pi.

LoRa-based mini weather station that measures temperature, humidity, pressure and wind direction.

Single board to control solar charging and battery monitoring for your outdoor projects. Your project will see a perpetually charged battery.

The flip dot display uses an electromechanical dot matrix that spin from black to yellow to display text, numbers and more!

Bring both Google Assistant and Alexa to your Raspberry Pi.

A small VT100 that you can carry in your hands, connect to any hardware that provide serial interface.

A packet-forwarding LoRaWAN gateway running on a Raspberry Pi with a Dragino LoRa extension board.

A device that can shake spray paint cans for you.

Transforming a smashed game unit into a miniature 3D printer for under $50.

A dress using Intel Curie accelerometer on tinyTILE and its small form factor to control colors of the optical fibers with arm movements.

If you have a HAT connected to your Raspberry Pi, you can't use your GPIO. But what if you want to detect motion? This project can help!

Display a UI on the PocketC.H.I.P. touchscreen complete with buttons and sensor read outs.

Use an old iPhone to control and display the status of your Patriot IoT devices.

Use voice commands to turn on/off, change color, effect of one, a range or all of an LED strip.

Record video, perform object and face recognition, take a time-lapse, or whatever else with a Particle Photon and the 5-megapixel Arducam!

A Nintendo Advantage-inspired controller to use with the NES Classic Edition or Wii (but for 2-button games).

Convert a 3D-printed bagpipe chanter into a BLE MIDI instrument.