If you are planning on building any Arduino home automation projects you might be interested to know that the official Arduino team have announced that the Arduino Cloud now supports Google Home ...

I'd start with the r/ESP8266 subreddit and go from there, because you'll find lots of great projects that may give you ideas. 4 reasons your next home automation controller should be an ESP8266 ...

An Arduino is a microcontroller — a single board designed to control something and perform a specific task. Unlike a Raspberry Pi, you won't find anything resembling an operating system here ...

The project does require a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino, priced at about $35 and $20, respectively, bringing the total cost to an estimated $120. This project is also highly customizable.