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Custom motion sensor wall mount

A motion sensor with pushbutton behind it.

Motion sensors; the simplest kind of automation, and the most useful. Especially during night, when you're finding your way to the smallest room in the house. I could not find a sensor I liked, however, and did not want to spend a lot of money on something ugly.

A friend of mine built just this, with the exception of using glue to stick it together. I designed and 3D printed a slightly more complicated contraption, which can be pushed to bring the room light up from night setting to full brightness.

Rollershutters

Shutter control panel

When we renovated our living room, we upgraded the window roller shutters with electric motors. While we usually only open and close all of them together, we still want to be able to set them to individual positions. I decided to make a central control panel with 6 physical buttons and implement some logic in the Siemens Logo controller to control the motors.