Nathan Broadbent - Made By Nathan (Page 5)

logs

Background Extra Work

I signed up with an agency (BGT) and started doing some extra work in 2024. It's a lot of fun to be on movie and TV sets. (It can also pay quite well if you book a commercial!) Spartacus: House of Ashur I'm a "Roman

home-assistant

Desk Lighting For Each Day Of The Week

I have an LED strip behind my desk in my office. It's controlled by an ESP32 running the WLED firmware. I've had it stuck on a fixed color preset for around a year. (See above.) I still like these colors, but I thought it would be

workshop

3D Printed Pegboard Mounts for Stanley Fatmax V20 Power Tools

I have some Stanley Fatmax power tools: * Impact Driver * Drill * Jigsaw * Sander * Circular Saw I also have their lawnmower, leaf blower, and pressure washer. It's great that we can use the same batteries for everything. I decided to mount the hand-held power tools on a pegboard in my

home-automation

Zigbee Commands To Configure the Start And Stop Limits for a Zemismart ZM25 Zigbee Blind Motor

If you use Home Assistant and Zigbee2MQTT, you can use the following script to configure the motor limits for your Zemismart Zigbee blinds. alias: Update Zemismart ZM25 Blind Motor Limit fields: entity_id: required: true description: Entity ID of your cover entity example: cover.blinds selector: entity: filter: domain: cover

home-assistant

3D Printed Blinds Motor Adapter

I bought a Zigbee motor for some blinds in our living room. I got it on AliExpress. Blind motors can be really expensive from New Zealand suppliers. I got a quote from one supplier for $350 per motor, but you can find motors on AliExpress for less than $100. The

web-design

Do we need more HTML colors?

I wrote a blog post about painting my fence. This got me thinking a lot about colors and how I use them as a web developer. Color Matching Paint With GIMPPlease note: This post is a stream-of-conciousness journal entry that describes all of the mistakes I made while trying to

painting

Color Matching Paint With GIMP

Please note: This post is a stream-of-conciousness journal entry that describes all of the mistakes I made while trying to color match paint. This is not a how-to guide from an expert. We're renting an old house that needs a lot of maintenance. The landlords are very easy-going

3D Printing

Fried Rice Sandbox Toy

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

LoRa Mailbox Notifications

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

3D Printing Log

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

Migrating from Hugo to Ghost

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

Organizing 1,700 Resistors in a Ring Binder

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