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Sunday, February 18, 2024

Flipper Zero - setting up a development environment

Flipper Zero is defined as "hacking" tool, i.e. is a collection of HW and SW that allows to explore and interact with technology around us.

How can we work on it ?

Saturday, February 10, 2024

Flipper Zero - introduction

Flipper Zero is defined as "hacking" tool, i.e. is a collection of devices and SW that allows to explore and interact with technology around us.

Saturday, February 3, 2024

Pimoroni Badger 2040 - quick intro

To have some fun I did buy a couple of gadgets from Pimoroni, electronic badges with a 2.9 inch eInk display.
There are two flavor of the board, one basic (Badger 2400)  and one with connectivity (WiFi - Badger 2400W).
A nice way to start to play with the Pico series from Raspberry.

Friday, November 24, 2023

Repairs - Moen Chateau valve repair (UPDATE)


In a home there is ALWAYS something to do and fix.

This time is an old bathtub/shower valve that start to be difficult to operate.

Is an old Moen Chateau fixture, with very very very probably a totally worn out cartridge.

This article should be titled "plan for the worse, hope for the best" :)

Saturday, September 16, 2023

Cooling the server area 2.0


Years ago .. almost 10 !!! I did set up a cooling system for the server area, basically a under stairs area in garage. 

Is time to try to improve the system.



Monday, September 4, 2023

Saturday, July 29, 2023

Repairs - attic fans

Arkansas is very hot place in summer, so basically every roof has one or more fans to help to reduce the accumulation of heat and humidity.

It is very important structure for the health of the house.


Sunday, July 16, 2023

Repairs - HP OfficeJet 4630 (UPDATE)

 

Back in the 2014 I did buy the HP Office-jet 4630.


Nice machine and it worked flawlessly until few days ago.

Here how I fixed it.

Sunday, July 9, 2023

Huzzah32 - fHelper




Time ago I did work on a fun project to control the soil of a plant in the office, the fHelper project.



However the project had some problems.





Sunday, June 11, 2023

Home Automation - controlling lights with CURL and HA-Bridge

 In order to control lights are years I'm using HA-Bridge, running on a server I call HA server.

Originally (and possible it will return there) was hosted by Opus, my main server.

It is quite  a while now is running over a Raspberry Pi.
This article is about how to control X10 via HA-Bridge from another computer in the network (hint, the network is not exposed to the outside)