Surveillance

Intro My home lab lives in a closet. - It’s not ideal, but it’s what i’ve got. Originally, when we designed that part of the house, the room was meant to be a “storage room”, and as such, i had all the ethernet plugs routed to a panel in the wall of this room. A year later our youngest son came into this world, and along with his arrival he claimed the room as his. [Read More]

Introduction I’ve been quiet for the past months, mostly because of summer, but also because I’ve been busy getting (re)aquatinted with circuit design. I haven’t played around with electronics in 20 years, but when I recently got my hands on an Arduino “starter kit” I just had to try it out. My go-to platform for solving home automation has been the Raspbery Pi, but RPi’s have a tendency to fail. There’s the good old SD Card failing, and recently I’ve had a lot of USB resets. [Read More]