tl;dr - OpenHab v3, SLZB-06, Proxmox, Dell PowerEdge R730xd Server, various zigbee devices. I've managed some semblance of a smart home for the past 7 years. This began as most things like these do - a toe in the water, then a foot, and then suddenly you&…
Lately I've had a nagging interest in working on a minimal OS again using Zig. To do that, seemingly I need to compile a freestanding Zig binary and then extend it into a Zig kernel capable of being ran by some bootloader.…
So you don't want to use Docker for Mac anymore, huh? First, let's install docker and virtualbox. brew install docker docker-machine brew install --cask virtualbox Now let's create a "docker machine" using docker-machine. This wraps around virtualbox to spin up a vm…
A few years ago I started slowly transforming my house into a "Smart House". It started with some friends of ours showing us their smart bulbs and how they could tell Alexa to turn them on and off. I'll admit, I was skeptical of how smart…
C++ doesn't support getter/setter style properties. But you can get pretty darn close with templates or macros. #include <iostream> #include "properties.h" using namespace std; class User { private: int mId; int mWeight; int mPurse; int mBank; public: // Non-auto property only supporting get (runtime…
I ran across The "do not be alarmed" clock on HackerNews and thought that would be a fun little project to play around with. It's been an awful long time since I've done anything with hardware and I haven't played with anything…
So we're expecting a baby here in the next week or two and my wife wanted a shelf/armoire/ambry(?) thing that matched our crib and changing dresser (see pictures of the store bought crib and dresser below). I drew up some plans in the free version of…
I switched from Chrome to Firefox a few months ago. For the most part...it feels roughly the same but there was one subtle difference that finally irked me to the point of googling: having to right click on a tab to close it. In Chrome, when you hover over…