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#hackspace meetup – LED Lightstrip Controller Event

Post By mv February 25, 2020 No Comments

#hackspace meetup success! Several people came to our monthly meetup on 2/24, our first meetup with a hardware project. This guide was used to complete the firmware flashing and assembly/soldering. Please note it’s a work-in-progress for a future formal workshop and edits/improvements are being made regularly. Some people had never…

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Events have started!

Post By mv February 21, 2020 No Comments

#hackspace sessions (in person!) are underway. See our events page for details and RSVP http://hackspace.io/events check twitter as well for news and nerd posts

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hardware, home automation esp8266, tasmota

Smart Bulb? Smart Switch? Smart….Lamp?

Post By mv December 18, 2019 No Comments

Smart bulbs are great.  Change colors, change brightness, turn on/off from phone.  But then it happens.  Someone turns the switch off and the smart bulb is unavailable. Dang. I fundamentally believe that automation/smart-home stuff shouldn’t impact usability — if there’s a switch, it should work as it is intended to. …

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No toy ever really dies…

Post By mv August 22, 2019 No Comments

My daughter has a much-loved teddy bear with a voicebox inside that says a prayer when it’s squeezed….at least…it did until one day it stopped working. In our house, it’s the general expectation that everything can be fixed.  My daughter told me the bear wasn’t working, and expected me to…

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hardware kernelcon, smarthome

smart home contest winners!

Post By mv February 28, 2019 No Comments

Our upcoming @_kernelcon_ workshop (more info here) is all about locally controlled smart-home stuff (#nocloud). The plan all along was to use @home_assistant and @snips to have our newly modified smart plugs be 100% controlled, and voice enabled, without using any cloud services. I was going to pull my snips…

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Kids + snowday = #hackery

Post By mv February 25, 2019 No Comments

It snowed this past weekend. a lot. #snowday today. Thanks to @snapcircuits, my son (4 yrs) and daughter (5yrs) decided they would work on launching some indoor projectiles. After a discussion around batteries (more = better) the kiddos decided we needed to try to hit the ceiling fan. What followed…

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hardware kernelcon, nerdery

Nerd Christmas!

Post By mv February 20, 2019 No Comments

Boxes of supplies for Kernelcon arrived yesterday

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hardware, Uncategorized kernelcon

Preparing for #kernelcon

Post By mv February 15, 2019 No Comments

We’re leading a workshop in the hardware hacking village at kernelcon later this spring – https://kernelcon.org/con Supplies arrived today! So many boxes…what could they be? OH! Smartplugs that connect to an unsecured public server — yay :-\ We’ll be leading a session on disassembling these things, soldering up an interface…

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