Stop Pulling Cords: Upgrade Your Blinds with This Affordable DIY Smart Solution

Your Smart Home is Missing an Upgrade: Automated Blinds on a Budget

Imagine waking up to natural sunlight as your blinds automatically open, or having them all close with a single tap on your phone as you settle in for a movie night. This level of convenience has long been a hallmark of high-end smart homes, often coming with a hefty price tag. Commercial electric blinds can cost a fortune, forcing you to choose between smart features and your budget.

But what if you could get all the benefits of smart, motorized blinds for a fraction of the cost? What if you could transform the manual roller blinds you already own into fully automated, smart-home-integrated shades? Now you can.

The Problem: Smart Blinds are Expensive and Wasteful

The biggest barrier to adopting automated blinds is the price. A single motorized blind can cost 3 to 5 times more than its manual counterpart. To automate a whole house, the cost quickly becomes prohibitive. Furthermore, it feels wasteful to discard perfectly good roller blinds just to get a model with a motor inside.

The Solution: A Simple, Smart, and Affordable Retrofit

Introducing our custom-designed PCB, the key to unlocking smart automation for your existing roller blinds. This board is engineered to be the brain of a simple DIY project that transforms your manual IKEA FRIDANS blinds (and many other similar models) into modern, electric ones.

Instead of replacing your blinds, you simply upgrade them. This project uses our PCB, a small, quiet stepper motor, and a few 3D-printed parts to create a powerful and reliable automation module.

Why Upgrade? The Advantages are Clear

Massive Cost Savings: Why pay a premium for new electric blinds? Our PCB-based solution allows you to build your own for a fraction of the price, making it affordable to automate every window in your home.
Retrofit Your Existing Blinds: Don't throw away what already works! Our system is designed to clamp onto popular and affordable blinds like the IKEA FRIDANS. Give your existing decor a powerful tech upgrade without creating waste.
Seamless Smart Home Integration: This isn't a closed, proprietary system. Our solution is designed to integrate perfectly with Home Assistant, the world's most popular open-source home automation platform. Once connected, the possibilities are endless.
Total Control at Your Fingertips: Through Home Assistant, you can control your blinds from anywhere. Integrate them into a wall-mounted touch panel, use your smartphone, or even control them with your voice via Alexa or Google Assistant.

Automate Your Life, Your Way

With Home Assistant integration, your blinds become more than just remote-controlled—they become truly smart.

Create Schedules: Automatically open your blinds at sunrise and close them at sunset.
Improve Energy Efficiency: Close south-facing blinds during the hottest part of summer days to keep your home cool.
Enhance Security: Create a "Vacation Mode" that adjusts your blinds throughout the day to make it look like someone is home.
Set Scenes: With a single command like "Movie Night," have your lights dim, your TV turn on, and your blinds close.

What We Provide

We offer the core component to make this project a breeze: the custom-designed PCB. This board simplifies the wiring and provides a reliable connection between the microcontroller and the motor, taking the guesswork out of the electronics. We provide all the guidance you need to source the other common parts (like the popular 28BYJ-48 motor) and find the 3D-printable files to complete your build.

Ready to bring your home into the future? Stop settling for manual blinds and start your DIY smart upgrade today!