Tag: iot
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2025 December 05
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2025 Week 49
Grilled a whole turkey for Thanksgiving, fell deep into the smart litter box telemetry rabbit hole for Catsby's health monitoring, reinstalled Fortnite and got weirdly fascinated by their copyright mashup achievement, published my short story "Emerald Halo", and spent way too much mental energy worrying about ADHD and creative writing schedules. [ ... 1910 words ... ]
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2025 November 13
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2025 Week 46
Our 15-year-old solar inverter died this week, which kicked off a lot of thinking about technology longevity and why IoT devices don't have 15-20 year plans. Also: anxious cat parenting with smart litter boxes, Miss Biscuits winning over Cosmo, buying a nostalgic boombox off eBay, bouncing off and back into Xenoblade Chronicles 3, contemplating tea as a booze replacement, and way too many bookmarks about AI coding tools. [ ... 1896 words ... ]
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2018 February 08
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I Made a WiFi Pumpkin
I made a wifi pumpkin using an ESP8266 with LED matrix eyes and mouth. I added a web-based remote control for my phone using websockets. It was fun! [ ... 1477 words ... ]