This book is for you if you agree with one of these:

• You have seen cool projects on the internet that amateur beginners have set up in their homes and you have an interest in hopping on the DIY automation bus, but don’t know where to start.
• You have used the Raspberry Pi for a media center or as a Linux desktop and you want to take it to the next level and find the answer to the question "what else can it do?"
• You want to impress your friends with your use of technology to simplify mundane everyday home tasks.
• You want someone to hold your hand through creating some cool home automation setups so that you may get the confidence to try your own big idea next.

All the projects in this book are examples of how you may use these boards. You may customize these ideas for your own situations; it depends on what you want to do or create. Your creativity and imagination is the limit.