I set out to answer a small question: can a Wi-Fi turntable send records to a WiiM multiroom system? On paper, yes. The catch is that a wireless turntable is late in every room, including the one it sits in. Bluetooth ...
My PIR motion sensor started firing on its own and kept my patio misters cycling. I moved the start to camera person detection, left motion only as a hold, and put a hard 30-minute cap over both.
In late July 2026 the mini PC that ran Home Assistant for my house got a reboot in the middle of a config session and never came back. My question was whether that reboot had broken it. The answer was half yes. The ...
In July 2026 I went looking for the best cooling comforter for an Arizona summer, and the answer turned out to be that I shouldn't buy one. The bed has a BedJet, which blows heated or cooled air under the covers. On a ...
My thermostat's room sensor once decided I was in my office for about half a day after I had left, and it kept turning a light back on in an empty room. The motion sensor in the same room had the opposite problem: sit ...
In July 2026 I looked into what it takes to camp in an RV at a festival. The first rule I found decided almost everything else: personal generators were banned across the whole site, and that includes the generator ...
In June I brought a weather bot to a four-day music festival in the woods. It posted conditions, forecasts and rain warnings to an off-grid community radio mesh. It reboot-cycled for two days, died for good late on day ...
At the last Electric Forest on-sale, the Back 40 log cabins were gone 15 minutes after the 10-year loyalty tier opened. Back 40 RVs lasted 20 minutes into the 9-year tier. Good Life pre-set RVs sold out on Thursday ...
My Discord community had a radio station: a bot that sat in a voice channel around the clock and played one blended, newest-first playlist of mixes. When a new mix was published, it jumped to the front of the queue and ...
I wanted a visual for every track in my DJ library, cut to the shape of each song and locked to its beat. Priced out across a few thousand tracks at what my early runs cost, it came out in six figures. One test run with ...
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