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  • Gallery Opening at the Firehouse

    2022-01-14 · 2 min read · photography  ·
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    Really excited to have three of my photographs included in the Long Range juried show at the Firehouse Art Center here in Longmont, alongside Veronica Love, Katherine Gibbons and John Fukuda. Artist members at the Firehouse are an integral part of our community: supporting events as volunteers, contributing to …

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  • Setting up a Worldwide Asset eXchange (WAX) test server using Docker on Linux

    2021-11-27 · 4 min read · wax blockchain docker  ·
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    Introduction This tutorial walks you through the steps to set up a Worldwide Asset eXchange (WAX) test server, establish the WAX currency and transfer some into a test account. This was tested on Ubuntu 18.04 and takes advantage of the waxdev docker container for some of the tooling. Starting the server Start the local …

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  • Driving a Lifx Z-Strip based on Audio

    2021-05-22 · 10 min read · home arduino smarthome  ·
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    Introduction I’ve previously discussed building a Stereo Console which is backlit using a LIFX Z-Strip, We thought it’d be cool if the backlight modulated in conjunction with the music we’re listening to so I set about building an Arduino to sample audio, perform an FFT and then produce a light …

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  • Audio Front-end for the ESP32

    2020-10-18 · 6 min read · home_automation electronics arduino  ·
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    Introduction As part of a larger project, I wanted a way to catpure the audio signal from our HiFi and sample it with an ESP32 Microcontroller. Our HiFi has a handy tape-dubbing output which I’m unlikely to ever use for that purpose, but it’s ideal for connecting the ESP to. Here’s a sample of one …

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  • Cleaning up Electricity Meter Data

    2020-10-10 · 5 min read · home_automation docker influxdb  ·
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    Introduction I’ve previously written about how I harvest the readings from my utility meters and put them into InfluxDB. This follow up post describes how I clean up that data using InfluxDB’s Flux language into something more usable. Data Let’s start by looking at the data. // This is where we select …

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  • Monitoring Utility Meters

    2020-10-10 · 3 min read · home_automation docker influxdb  ·
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    Introduction There are quite a few options for monitoring your whole house water or power usage, but i’m not thrilled about adding a bunch of extra hardware to my breaker panel. I’ve known for a while that the city reads my utility meters by driving by, but had assumed this radio technology was some kind of encrypted …

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  • Setting up InfluxDB on Docker

    2020-10-09 · 2 min read · home_automation docker influxdb  ·
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    Introduction Docker is a great lightweight container system for running applications on your home server. I run it on my Synology DS918+which stores all our backups and runs most of the services for our home network. InfluxDB is a great lightweight time-series database that’s ideal for monitoring other …

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  • Building a Stereo Console

    2020-07-28 · 3 min read · home cad woodworking 3d_printing  ·
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    Introduction We bought a record player and started collecting vinyl during the pandemic. We weren’t able to find a well suited piece of furniture, so i set about making a console out of some scrap boards we had left over from another project. I didn’t take any photos of the construction because I …

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Recent Posts

  • Gallery Opening at the Firehouse
  • Setting up a Worldwide Asset eXchange (WAX) test server using Docker on Linux
  • Driving a Lifx Z-Strip based on Audio
  • Audio Front-end for the ESP32
  • Cleaning up Electricity Meter Data
  • Monitoring Utility Meters
  • Setting up InfluxDB on Docker
  • Building a Stereo Console

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