Dorr bell with built in Camera

Im not sure if my visitors would understand to press this round thing, but it's a good concept to re-use the power lines today and run a camera also there.
http://www.idoorcam.com/

Extend the range on your Vera z-wave network (and ruin the warranty)

Found a interesting post in foreign language how to extend the Z-wave network and install a external antenna on your Vera and Vera lite.
They even links to the right parts in Ebay.
http://www.byggahus.se/forum/teknik/201788-z-wave-da-haus-hemautomation.html#post1791459

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300700727389
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300382080567

Internet of Things

Martin at  http://harizanov.com/ has ton’s of things connected to the internet. With nice pictures of his projects. How about this web-server with built in thermometer?

And I especially would like to push for this post about the solar powered transmitter:

http://harizanov.com/2012/08/solar-funky/

Move your Raspberry Pi from SD card to USB

How to move your Raspberry Pi from SD card to USB

http://c-mobberley.com/wordpress/index.php/2013/04/13/moving-raspberry-pi-root-folders-from-sd-card-to-usb-hdd/

That’s it!, now I don’t need to search for this link any more

Open Energy Monitor.

A lot of activity around measuring things for a low costs is available at the openenergymonitor site

http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/

if your combining some skills of soldering, arduino, raspberry pi and or the micasaverde vera you have a neat package to measure areas like air quality and power usage.