Lockitron Hardware Hookup Guide
This Tutorial is Retired!
This tutorial covers concepts or technologies that are no longer current. It's still here for you to read and enjoy, but may not be as useful as our newest tutorials.
Contributors:
Shawn Hymel
Shawn Hymel 
Resources and Going Further
The Lockitron is a great way to add some advanced technology to your door and venture into the world of home automation. This guide, hopefully, helped show you how to use the Lockitron Mechanical Assembly. From here, the possibilities are endless on how you want to control your door:
- Secret knock code
- Bluetooth app on your smartphone
- Connected to a webpage
- RFID
- Fingerprint scanner
- Iris scanner
- Voice commands
Resources
Other Tutorials
Need inspiration on how to interact with the Lockitron? Check out these tutorials:
SparkFun RFID Starter Kit Hookup Guide
Learn the basics of how to get started with the SparkFun RFID Starter Kit.
BC118 BLE Mate 2 Hookup Guide
Hooking up and using the BLE Mate 2, which uses the BC118 BLE module from BlueCreations.
ESP8266 Thing Hookup Guide
An overview of SparkFun's ESP8266 Thing - a development board for the Internet of...Things. This tutorial explains the circuitry driving the board, and how to get it up and running in an Arduino environment.