Projects

After my first few cooks with the Mini-WSM, I quickly came to the conclusion that I did not want to be tied to this thing for an entire cook. So I set about with incremental changes and then one giant “make the robots do it” leap. The first step was to get the data from

In the fall of 2020 I had a spare Raspberry Pi 3 kicking around and no project for it. Can’t have that! After doing some searching I came upon something that scratched a number of itches for me: signal snooping, freedom of information, and neat party tricks. I built an ADS-B receiver & feeder to

Right before the COVID clampdown during the winter of ’19-’20, I picked up a smoking habit. Like many late 30s/early 40s, I started getting the itch to pick up smoking meat as a hobby. My wife and I had gone on a “mini-moon” after our wedding in October ’19 (planning on our “real” one the

Can’t say it any better than the reddit post I made on the project, so I’ll just copy it here for posterity: With the new season started and u/jayblackedout‘s nhl_goal event working, I pulled the trigger on a project I’ve wanted to do for a while and add a goal light to my HA setup. The original idea

A cousin of mine played soccer overseas in the Finnish leagues for a bit of time and fortunately the games at the top 3 levels were all streamed by various services over there. I had his login and one subscription to Surfshark VPN later, I had a way to region shift and follow my relative’s

Around the time I did this project, Ring cameras were starting to become A Thing but there were a few things that kept me from getting one: I didn’t want to enter the Amazon ecosystem, I didn’t want something that would send video to Amazon’s cloud, approval was unclear in my condo HOA, and I

There was a time, believe it or not, where one would want to know whether or not the Chicago White Sox were currently playing. In the halcyon days of 2019, I sought out to do just that as a sensor that I could trigger off of in Home Assistant. Since HA includes REST API as

In 2017, Airplay 2 wasn’t yet A Thing and multi-send hadn’t been added yet to iOS. However, I still wanted to be able to have synced audio nodes around my condo (I was spoiled from my time working in pro audio). I had a spare Android tablet that I installed AllStream onto, an Airport Express

Back in the winter of 2014-2015, I wanted to build my own Kegbot. I had been watching the project on Github as it progressed and obsessed over the various builds for how I would implement my own. While it would live in the garage, I didn’t want to dedicate a full size fridge or chest