I’ve spent years frustrated with IR control in my smart home. Every solution was either a clunky, cobbled-together mess of components, or some cloud-dependent IR blaster that phones home to servers in who-knows-where. So I…
My Home Automation Journey Several years back, I got into the home automation game, sadly for me, at the time I was trying to automate “all the things”, it was just too chaotic lacking any…
In my last post I talked about an issue my company had. We couldn’t monitor our paging infrastructure from end-to-end and we couldn’t find anybody selling anything that could. Before folks start yapping about pagers,…
I’ve slowly been able to expand my home lab to include the type of equipment that allows me to continually improve my technical skills as well as experiment with home automation and DIY electronics. As my home lab has…
I’ve recently redesigned my Retro WiFi Radio project to include some “extra” functionality and the design requirements required some tiny spacing of the components in addition to some tiny SMD parts. While I’m all for…
Update: This board design and firmware were just far too buggy. I was very excited to see the Arduino team had answered everyone’s request with a WiFi shield and it rocks. http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoWiFiShield Just wanted…