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Background Extra Work

Nathan Broadbent

19 Jul 2024 — 2 min read

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 Elite" in the new season of Spartacus that comes out this year (2025).

You might not recognize me though, I had to shave off my beard!

Shortland Street

(New Zealand soap opera)

Episode 117 (18 July, 2024)

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/shortland-street/episodes/s2024-e117

Episode 96 (18 June, 2024)

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/shortland-street/episodes/s2024-e96

Taskmaster NZ

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/taskmaster-nz/episodes/s5-e8

Viva La Dirt League

How I Turned Our Rented House into a Smart Home

We've been renting a house in Auckland, New Zealand. This house needs a lot of maintenance and renovation, but the landlords let us have two cats and a dog so we can't complain! They also let us do whatever we want to the house (within reason)

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

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

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