For years, our mornings and evenings started with the same frustrating routine: battling with our old horizontal blinds. We love natural light, so every new dawn I’d wrestle tangled cords ...

Continue reading “Blinds Automated With Offline Voice Recognition ... [HumanSkunk87] figures it needs to be able to pull about 2.5kg in order to raise the blind.

The blinds use a light dependent resistor to open during the day and close at night, but a $1 thermal sensor can close them during the day if it’s particularly hot.

I’d really like to at least automate my living room window blinds though, but that cost is way too high. Report comment. Reply. Rodney McKay says: May 25, 2016 at 7:10 am ...

The idea for Gear, which is a $249.00 ($179.00 as of this writing thanks to a sale) aftermarket conversion gadget to turn almost any cord-pull blinds into automated smart blinds, actually came to ...

Smart shades, blinds, and curtains can open or close on a schedule or at your command. They save energy and make life more convenient—especially for anyone with limited mobility.

Keeping your house cool (or warm) is often all about timing. To that end, you sometimes need to tweak when your blinds are open, when they're closed, and when the air conditioner is running.

Maintaining blinds might not be the most taxing of jobs but it’s certainly an irritating one — provided we are maintaining a pretty big home or ... FlipFlic wants to automate your blinds. By.