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...

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...

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 a couple weeks ago I wrote about the new firewall setup. Quick update on the status of that. I built it out. Got it working. yay! But I want more cool stuff. So I have a business class fiber line run to the house with 5 static IP’s. So I decided to see if I could get pfsense to do failover router. You know, because...

I have been running openhab for over a year now on a raspberry pi. I also run mosquitto mqtt broker with a great piece of software called mqttwarn. On my phone I run owntracks. So lets do a brief summary of what these pieces of software do for me and what I currently have configured. **Openhab – “**a vendor and...