It takes a special kind of fool to trust their home and potentially their life to a $5 development board and some Arduino source code they copied and pasted from the Internet.

Keeping track of things like the temperature, humidity, and smoke level in your house is important. If you want to make your own system for doing so, ...

Analog Devices has released a reference design for a smoke alarm that meets UL 217 8th edition, along with an arduino-compatible evaluation kit. Built around the recently released ADPD188BI optical ...

The sensor is connected to one of the analog inputs of an Arduino, which also runs a 128×64 pixel LCD display — inspired by this air quality meter — to show the current smokiness both ...