The demo video in the article is kind of incredible. It's one of those magical moments where you're just like "aha - this is what the future looks like."
Despite the necessary security and safety criticisms that are likely to come up, this is truly awesome; I wish we saw more stuff like this surfacing on HN.
Not sure if you're interested, but I've got a couple of my lights hooked up with Google Now so I can say "Ok Google, turn the living room lamp on" and also when I connect to my wifi network and the sun has set it'll turn my living room lamp on.
Can you give me a general direction how to do this project?