Posts in Hardware
The Hugs Strike Back!
- 29 January 2018
Another year, another amazing Linux Conf AU! Based on feedback from LCA2017, I was definitely going to iterate on the hug detector. In that time the ESP32 platform has begun to mature and because I like challenges, decided to use a board I received days prior to leaving for the conference and really only flashed with blink.
Don’t underestimate the… Doorbell
- 04 June 2017
A while ago I needed a doorbell, so I hacked one together using a Raspberry Pi I had laying around. It was a temporary fix while I got around to building an Arduino based replacement. A month or so ago the SD card croaked, so it was time.
Hacking your Conference badge for Hugs & Profit
- 22 January 2017
Last week was Linux Conf AU 2017, which is a community run Free and Open Source Software conference that is in a different A/NZ city every year. This year I’d managed to attend the Open Hardware MiniConf and was inspired to build something during the conference. I’m not sure how it occurred to me to build a ‘Hug Detector’ into my Conference badge, but it did and after talking about it with some fellow delegates, the feedback was overwhelmingly positive.
Automating your home with ‘themachine’
- 11 January 2017
There will be more posts to come, but for some time I have been playing around with home automation. One of the things I really wanted to do was utilise some form of machine learning to make decisions about when I wanted the Shed’s Airconditioning or the wall fan turned on. I could have utilised rules in my OpenHAB based home automation system, however I’d already gotten reasonably creative with those and wanted a challenge.