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Automated Window Blinds with Arduino | Home Awesomation And The Final Product is Here! This video below shows all the parts and how I’ve connected the servo. This is the pull string for “manual” control Well the fun keeps on coming, and by now you should see that the running theme in my world is many competing projects. Annnyway stand back witness a very cool project that literally took me less than an hour to prototype. There are solutions available but clearly the other theme to my blog is cheap. I successfully converted existing blinds in my house to automated blinds with many features for about $35-40. What my blinds do (aka what sensors does it have). Open when it’s day light, and close when the sun goes down. I am operating the blinds using a servo, which is a type of geared electric motor. I’m doing this all through an Arduino, it’s cheap, super easy to use and has great tutorials for all of the features I’ve mentioned above. You can find my Arduino source code AND diagrams on github: More Videos Below…