Welcome to BigClown Labs’ Alpha Set Git repository!
The Alpha Set is a bundle of hardware and software components enabling you to easily build your next home Internet-of-Things (IoT) projects. Our system is extremely modular. The individual modules provide various communication interfaces, sensors and actuators. And the best part? It is all open-source!
With this system you can instantly:
- Monitor temperature
- Monitor humidity
- Monitor CO2 concentration (carbon dioxide)
- Monitor light intensity
- Monitor atmospheric pressure
- Monitor altitude
- Control relays
We have a lot of ideas where to go next, but let’s call it THE START. :-) The next priority is to make the nodes wireless and battery-operated.
Our software platform builds on proven internet standards, protocols and components which are easy to integrate into your home automation application.
You can see the example hardware configuration in the picture below:
The system concept of the Alpha Set is best presented by the following block diagram:
Well, our project has not officially started yet. That’s why we call this early stage as “alpha”. :-)
We work hard to launch our e-shop by the beginning of October. However, if you want to get the Alpha Set or any of its substantial components earlier, please contact us at:
For the very first steps please see one of the following links:
- Quick Start Guide in English (coming soon)
- Quick Start Guide in Czech
The Alpha Set hardware might be connected to either an embedded or desktop platform.
Click on one of the corresponding configuration below for further instructions:
- Raspberry Pi (model 2 and 3 is supported)
- COMING SOON! Windows (version 7, 8.x & 10 is supported)
- COMING SOON! OS X (version 10.11 is supported)
- COMING SOON! Ubuntu Desktop (version 16.04 LTS is supported)
If you want to learn about our hardware design internals or provide feedback on it, please check our hardware folder where you will find:
We design all the hardware in Eagle and the related design files altogether with the libraries will be released later (sometimes in October).
If you have any ideas to share about the overall concept, products or software, please contact us at:
Also do not hesitate to let us know if you come across any issues. We have enabled Issue Tracker or you can tell us on the e-mail address above.
We appreciate every single follower. If you like our idea, please help up us to spread the word about this project.
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Thanks and have fun!
— Your enthusiastic team of clowns, BIG CLOWNS!
