Homebrew: Tech project wins £20,000 car

Simon Smith, a web developer from Rugby, is the winner of a Toyota Prius car in ZDNet.co.uk's Homebrew Challenge. Simon has been building a home-automation system. Unlike many home-automation nuts, he is creating it from scratch, from the software to the woodwork. His 19-inch rack cabinet, for example, he constructed from scraps of wood. Many of ...