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HVAC – heating, ventilation, and air conditioning – can account for a huge amount of energy usage of a building, whether it’s residential or industrial. Often it’s the majority energy …read more Continue reading Building AI Models To Diagnose HVAC Issues
Electricity flow is generally invisible, silent, and not something that most humans want to touch, so understanding how charge moves around can be fairly unintuitive at first. There are plenty …read more Continue reading Modeling Home Heating Systems With Circuit Simulation Software
If you’re lucky enough to have central heating and/or air conditioning, with an automatic thermostat, you probably don’t have to worry too much about the outside temperature. But central HVAC …read more Continue reading Baseboard Heaters Get Automated
Air quality has become a hot topic in recent years. [Ryan Stout] was interested in improving it in his camper van, and set about doing something about it. His solution …read more Continue reading Automated System Keeps Camper Van Air Fresh and Warm
Modern building techniques are relying more and more on passive elements to improve heating and cooling efficiencies, from placing windows in ways to either absorb sunlight or shade it out …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: AutoDuct Smart Air Duct
Heat pumps are taking the world by storm, and for good reason. Not only are they many times more efficient than electric heaters, but they can also be used to …read more Continue reading Heat Pump Control That Works
Territories across the northern hemisphere are suffering through record-breaking heatwaves this summer. Climate scientists are publishing graphs with red lines jagging dangerously upwards as unprecedented numbers pour in. Residents of …read more Continue reading How To Survive A Wet Bulb Event
[WJCarpenter] had a common HVAC problem; not all the rooms got to a comfortable temperature when the heater was working to warm up their home. As often happens with HVAC …read more Continue reading Ventbots are fans of HVAC and Home Automation
As Tom Nardi mentioned in this week’s podcast, the Northeast US is pretty apocalyptically socked in with smoke from wildfires in Canada. It’s what we here in Idaho call “August,” …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 11, 2023
Thanks to Home Assistant, automating the various systems that run your home is easier than ever. But you still need to make a connection between those systems and your Home …read more Continue reading Custom Thermostat PCB Connects Boiler to Home Assistant