My Meshtastic station could still hear the mesh as well as it ever had, but nobody outside my house could hear it. Receive stayed flat; transmit went to zero. That cleared the antenna, cable and connectors before I ...
For months, a smart LED light curtain in my house wouldn't reliably do what Home Assistant told it. In August 2026 I took it apart, one hypothesis at a time, and learned the one curtain was two devices. One answered ...
This site ran on an off-the-shelf HubSpot theme for years. Dark, competent, generic. Roboto and Lato, a coral accent I never chose, and a layout that looked like a hundred other sites built from the same marketplace ...
On electricity alone, my model put the payback on the spray foam in my garage at 15 to 30 years. I ran that math first and bought it anyway.
In August 2026 I sketched what it would take to run my AI work at home: a fast GPU for high-volume background jobs, and a big-memory machine for the long conversation. Over 37 days, 96.6% of the tokens my setup ...
In August I wanted a mesh weather node whose name was the weather, like WX Station - 110°. Renaming puts a packet on the air, so I did the math: worst case, about 49 seconds of airtime a day across the region. The math ...
The radio in my new Meshtastic base station was dead for ten days, and the service manager logged all fourteen restarts as clean exits. The real cause was a full node database crashing the radio software. I found it by ...
In July I built an e-ink dashboard for my Rivian in one day. It sits on a TRMNL and shows charge, range, cabin temperature and anything left open. Most of the work went into one question: what should the screen do when ...
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: a wireless turntable is late in every room, even its own. Bluetooth adds 34 to 300 ms, per ...
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.
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