CoffeeBot
One morning my lovely girlfriend mentioned how much she would like if we had coffee ready to go in the morning. I had my objective. I began examining the coffee pot. The simple appliance was operated by a single electric switch. I connected the coffee pot to a relay, and the relay to a raspberry pi. I used a remote desktop application to access the pi and wrote a python script to trigger the relay. Coffee automated successfully, next step is to improve the interface and user experience.