Happy PI Day!!! A few years back… ok… like 9 years ago. I built an interesting piece of functional art in my living room. It was my media center pc, mounted in a double picture frame on my wall. This thing served me well for a long time. But now it’s time to upgrade it. After all this time the ATOM board in there has...

Some of you know, I really like lithium ion batteries *shocked* Shut it! This is a short post, I don’t need you hamming up the works. Just wait till I show up in your videos…. You wouldn’t…. Hello…. Oh hell….. Ok, lets not worry about that now. I picked up a pretty sweet haul of batteries this week. 22lbs. I counted...

A while back a co-worker hit me up over the weekend and said “hey! I found this thing you want it?!?” Once finding out what “it” was I said sure.. Haha.. you know what “it” was, and you wanted it. Really? That’s how we are going to start this? After getting through hurricane irma and halloween season I was able to...

I have made some progress on the green sprinkler system project. I even shot some video recently!!! Here is some testing of the water quality…. WHO PEED IN MY BARREL!! Now for the big update!!! Built a battery from recycled 18650 laptop cells. Hooked it to my pump. Drained my rain barrel!! Then charged the battery back...

My last barrel was the white kind and it did not do well at keeping light out so there was a swamp monster in it when I checked it. Glad I wasn’t using it for anything, that water was gross. I switched over to these blue barrel’s in hopes it would be better. Got a cool endoscope camera from amazon Amazon With this...

I use octoprint to manage my printer. When I can, I batch print. I will literally print things back to back. But I also love the timelapse and we have all seen it…. But I have more robot stuff to print!!!! Settle down there smart guy. Nobody asked you! Ok, interruptions aside. Running octoprint on an original pi is a...

So awhile back I came across an instructables article regarding using some ikea lack tables to make a 3dprinter enclosure….. I love ikea…. So this was the project. http://www.instructables.com/id/3d-Printer-Enclosure-from-Upcycled-Furniture/ I went to ikea. Got 2 lack tables and put them together…. I want my printer...

Hello Hello again. Recently I was chiming in on a thread on reddit regarding CCTV. I mentioned how my cameras/cctv is setup. Then I thought. Hey, you know would like to know this? EVERYONE!!!! Really. Conversation totally happened in my head. Told you Doctors it’s not too crowded up there. Let’s begin!! This all really...

So recently I started thinking about my HA system when I have guests. I have a small house (not a tiny house) just a small house. When my parents visit they setup camp in the living room. Working on getting PIR motion sensors to turn things on and off. But with guests, I need a guest mode to disable the motion sensor…....

Ok, we have all done it. Where the hell is my phone? Where’s the ipad? Home alone trying to find it and you have no way of calling it because, well, no land line. A week or so ago I finally replaced my Jurassic period thermostat with something a little newer. I know, weird right. I do all this stuff and I had a...