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Smart Floor Registers with Raspberry Pi Pico 2W: Smarter Heating, Lower Bills
Take control of your home heating with a smart solution powered by Raspberry Pi Pico 2W. This innovative system optimizes heating, reduces energy costs, and adds convenience — all for an affordable price.
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Does your heating system drive you crazy? Mine used to. I was stuck with an outdated setup that blasted heat evenly across the house, leaving small, insulated rooms unbearably hot and larger spaces freezing cold. My thermostat? Practically useless — it only measured the temperature in the living room, ignoring every other space. Meanwhile, my furnace burned gas and pushed air through old-school floor vents with no way to control which rooms got heat.
Sure, I could manually adjust the floor registers every morning and evening, but who wants to do that? So, I decided to solve the problem with a DIY solution: a smart floor vent system.
