3D Printing
My wife is a counselor who does "play therapy" at a primary school. She has a sand tray and some toys that kids can play with during their sessions. Sometimes she asks me to 3D print things for the kids to play with. For example, I printed this
lora
I bought this awesome device that sends me notifications whenever we get a new letter or package in our mailbox. I bought it from the creator's online store: MailBox Guard Wireless IR SensorPricelessToolkitPricelessToolkit The design is also open source and available on GitHub: GitHub - PricelessToolkit/MailBoxGuard: Lora
3D Printing
I bought a Bambu Lab X1-Carbon 3D printer in March 2023. I find a lot of models on Thingiverse, Printables, and MakerWorld. I also design my own parts in Autodesk Fusion and OpenSCAD. This page is where I log some of the things that I've 3D printed. You
blog
I haven't been able to write any blog posts since I got an M2 MacBook. I was using an old version of Hugo and got it running in a Docker container, but the Docker container only ran on my old Intel Mac. It was too painful to update
electronics
I used a ring binder and card sleeves to organize 1,700 through-hole resistors. You can use this PDF to make your own ring binder: * Download E24_Resistor_Kit_Folder.pdf * Liquid and SCSS that was used to generate the PDF The template code and generated PDF document are released
plex
Plex-Cleaner is a Python script that can clean up your Plex directory by deleting movies and TV shows after you've watched them. This will stop your disk from filling up with lots of old media files over time. You can run this script on your server (or Raspberry
home-assistant
Yes. SATA and SAS use very similar connectors, but a SATA connector has a gap in the middle. This means that you can physically plug a SATA drive into a SAS connector, but you can't plug a SAS drive into a SATA controller (because it won't
web-design
It's been a while since I wrote a blog post about creating a favicon.ico file for your website or blog. Things have changed a bit since I wrote that blog post in May 2010. I've been updating the CSS for my blog recently, and I
home-automation
I originally posted this write-up on the Home Assistant Community Forums. I thought I would post it here as well, since I haven't written anything on this blog for a while. I've been getting more serious about Home Automation lately, so I might start writing some
docker
2024 UPDATE: I've migrated from Hugo to Ghost. The following Docker solution broke when I started using a M2 MacBook. I wasn't able to run the older version of Hugo in a Docker container (even with Rosetta.) I haven't written any blog posts for
home-automation
I bought a wifi-connected kettle and flashed it with a custom firmware. Kogan Smart KettleJust Tasmota it with AND it works - platform: mqtt name: “Kettle Power” state_topic: “stat/Kettle/POWER” command_topic: “cmnd/Kettle/POWER” payload_on: “ON” payload_off: “OFF” optimistic: false qos: 0 now with MY
games
I used React Native to build a cross-platform game for iOS, Android, Windows, and the web. SudoBlock is a cross between Sudoku, jigsaw puzzles, and Tetris. You can find SudoBlock on the web, App Store, Google Play, and the Microsoft Store. React Native only supports iOS and Android, but I