I'm into technology in general: servers, networks, DevOps, cloud computing, and interesting IoT projects I build as a hobby. Here I write up what I make, with the configs, the wiring, and the parts that didn't work the first time.
Ingress NGINX was retired in March 2026. I migrated a test cluster to Gateway API with ingress2gateway and Envoy Gateway, and found what the conversion silently drops.
Four DS18B20 probes in 3D-printed clips on my heating manifold's pipes, an ESP32 running ESPHome, and flow/return temperatures per circuit...
My Chinese louvered pergola only had a 433 MHz remote. I sniffed its codes with an ESP32 and CC1101 and put the louvers and light into Home...
A tiny real-time shared clipboard: open one page on two devices, type on one and it shows up on the other instantly, built serverless on...
I wrote an open source Prometheus exporter for Huawei FusionSolar. No Northbound API account needed, just a normal portal login and...
How my garden irrigation went from a dumb timer to a weather check that never worked, and finally to a seasonal, rain-aware Home Assistant...
Why I run handheld radios when I wheel with a team, and the 3D-printed Baofeng holder I designed for the MOLLE panel in my Wrangler. Free...
Part 2 of my Vaillant EcoCompact project: a Home Assistant heating dashboard with boiler gauges, gas usage from eBUS counters and ten...
Tesla's navigation has no routing in Georgia. I built a map for the car browser: OSRM routing, 3D terrain, voice guidance and Google Maps...
My Xiaomi camera's UART RX pad was dead, so I dumped and rewrote its SPI flash with an ESP32 to get a root shell. Full wiring, sketch and...
I built a Meshtastic node from an ESP32, an SX1278 LoRa module and a NEO-6M GPS, wired into my Jeep's 12V system, with the headless...
Turn a cheap Bluetooth TV LED strip into a real Home Assistant light with ESPHome. Full YAML, the 9-byte BLE packet format, and why LED BLE...
Read live flow temperature, burner modulation and pressure from a Vaillant EcoCompact VSC266 in Home Assistant using an eBUS adapter, ebusd...
