Category Archives: Projects

Programmable Holiday Lights

Posted on 2022-10-30 by Nigel VH

I’m far from the only person to use addressable LED strips as holiday lights, so I won’t delve too deeply into the details. The project has been on my mind for a few years, as the annual endeavor to fix/install … Continue reading →

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Inkplate Weather Display

Posted on 2022-10-19 by Nigel VH

A little while ago I ordered an Inkplate 10, which is a project pairing old Kindle E-Paper displays with ESP32 microcontrollers. Mine arrived a bit ago, and I’ve been looking for a good project to use it on. Recently we’ve … Continue reading →

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New Oscilloscope

Posted on 2022-02-25 by Nigel VH

For a number of years I’ve had some older analog oscilloscopes without storage capabilities, paired with a Saleae Logic, which has done well for my use cases in general, but there are some limitations. If a signal was faster than … Continue reading →

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Storage Expansion

Posted on 2022-02-08 by Nigel VH

For the last several years I’ve had a storage shelf attached to my home server supporting roughly 30TB of redundant storage making use of ZFS, which I’ve been quite pleased with. I use it to store all my various media, … Continue reading →

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Home Energy Monitor

Posted on 2022-01-28 by Nigel VH

Some friends and I recently spoke about understanding our home energy usage better, and implementing data collection for various circuits in which we had little real visibility into the actual usage and how they contributed to our energy bills. We … Continue reading →

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