My parents always forget whether or not they closed the garage door, so I created my own Raspberry Pi controlled garage door sensor for detecting and relaying the state of the garage door via push notifications. Overall, this project is pretty simple and a great way to learn/play around with some basic embedded systems!

Useful Links:
Contact Switch: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=magnet+con...
RPi W with headers: https://www.amazon.com/PicoRaspberry...
Breakout Board: https://www.amazon.com/FREENOVEBreak...
RPi W docs: https://www.raspberrypi.com/documenta...
Pushover: https://pushover.net/api

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:43 Components and Testing
4:23 Programming
8:33 Building
10:43 Completed Project
11:15 Fixes
12:08 Conclusion

Music:
All credit to MapleStory BGM and Victor Fuertes!

Note: Sorry for the changes in video quality, I got a new phone halfway through editing this video!

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