If you are looking to build a unique, customizable home automation system you may be interested in a new project designed to use those old redundant phones or tablets tucked away indoors in cupboards.

Over on the Hackster.io website Kamaluddin Khan has published a new project providing details on creating a long-range home automation system using the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller together ...

I have to admit it: I backed the wrong horse when it came to driving home automation from a digital assistant and went with Microsoft's Cortana and its Harmon Kardon Invoke smart speakers. I had good ...