Custom Hardware
Custom Hardware Solutions: Beyond Off-the-Shelf Products
Should standard commercial products not suffice for your specific domotization requirements, we can explore implementing custom hardware solutions that leverage available computing platforms to create precisely what you need. When proprietary systems lack the flexibility you require, when integration between disparate systems proves impossible through conventional means, or when you envision functionality that simply doesn't exist in the market—custom hardware becomes the answer.
At this point, the sky truly is the limit. Custom solutions enable unique integrations, specialized interfaces, creative automation scenarios, and bespoke functionality tailored exactly to your requirements without compromise. While off-the-shelf products serve many needs admirably, they inevitably reflect design decisions made for the mass market. Custom hardware liberates you from these constraints, allowing solutions that perfectly match your vision.
Raspberry alikes
Raspberry Pi and similar single-board computers have revolutionized the custom hardware landscape, providing powerful, affordable platforms for implementing virtually any automation or integration project imaginable.
The Raspberry Pi is an incredibly versatile computing platform that can interact with almost all types of hardware through its GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) pins, USB interfaces, network connectivity, and numerous communication protocols including I2C, SPI, and UART. This flexibility makes it the perfect bridge between incompatible systems, the foundation for custom control interfaces, or the brain of entirely novel automation solutions.
These compact computers are powerful enough to run full operating systems, host web servers, process video streams, execute complex automation logic, and interface with sensors, actuators, displays, and virtually any other electronic component or system. Despite this capability, they consume minimal power, operate silently without fans, and cost a fraction of traditional computing hardware.
From this platform, implementation becomes limited only by imagination and requirements. We can create custom interfaces that translate between proprietary protocols, develop specialized controllers for unique hardware, build data logging and analysis systems, implement advanced security features, create local AI processing for privacy-sensitive applications, or integrate legacy systems that lack modern connectivity options.
The extensive Raspberry Pi ecosystem—along with alternatives like Arduino, ESP32, and other microcontroller platforms—provides access to countless libraries, community-developed code, and hardware add-ons that accelerate development while maintaining reliability.
Smart Mirror
A Smart Mirror represents an elegant fusion of technology and daily life—a custom-enhanced mirror that provides contextual information exactly when and where you need it, seamlessly integrated into your morning routine.
We combine a high-quality transparent mirror (also called a two-way or one-way mirror) with a display screen and a Raspberry Pi computer. The transparent mirror sits in front of the screen, appearing as a normal mirror in areas without backlight but allowing the display content to show through where the screen illuminates. This creates the magical effect of information appearing to float within the mirror itself.
The physical integration requires careful attention to display brightness, mirror transparency ratios, ambient lighting conditions, and frame design to create a polished, professional appearance that complements your space rather than looking like a technology project.
Beyond the hardware, we develop custom software to display whatever information serves your needs. Common implementations include current time and date, weather forecasts and conditions, calendar appointments and reminders, news headlines from selected sources, traffic conditions for your commute, public transportation schedules, smart home status (security system, door locks, climate control), personal health metrics, motivational quotes, and stock market information.
The interface can be context-aware, adjusting content based on time of day, who's standing in front of the mirror (using facial recognition), or events in your calendar. Voice control integration allows you to interact hands-free while getting ready, and motion sensors can automatically activate the display when you approach.
Smart mirrors can be customized in virtually any size and shape to fit your bathroom, bedroom, entryway, or any other location where a mirror serves a functional purpose. The software is fully customizable—we design the layout, information hierarchy, and appearance to match your preferences and aesthetic requirements, creating a unique piece that's both functional technology and attractive decor.
