Projects
Things built, automated, and occasionally finished.
Pool Sensor Helper
*A two-season, two-iteration story about temperature, water levels, salt water, and learning the hard way — twice.*
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in-progressThe Cottage - a canvas for things IOT
What better place than a cottage to build a second whole new IOT ecosystem.
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in-progressBedside Light Simplisity
An esphome project using the "older" ESP8266 to manually control i.e. on/off and dim two (bedside) selected homeassistant entity lights.
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in-progressThe Little Library Project
Modernize and expand on data collection of a front-lawn Library Exchange with ESPHOME and Home Assistant
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in-progressAt Home with ESPHome
Building custom smart home sensors with ESP8266 and ESP32 microcontrollers — temperature, humidity, motion, and more, all integrated seamlessly into Home Assistant.
12 devices
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completedProject: Beside Lights
Designing and building custom PCB bedside lamps with warm ambient lighting, capacitive touch dimming, and Home Assistant integration — no off-the-shelf parts allowed.
2 custom PCBs
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completedCoolest Things I've Automated
A curated collection of the home automations I'm most proud of — the ones that actually changed how I interact with my space, not just the ones that technically worked.
11 automations
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in-progressProject: Cottage Stuff
Bringing smart home tech to a remote cottage — solar-powered sensors, cellular connectivity, water level monitoring, and knowing if a pipe froze before driving four hours to find out.
3 sensors deployed
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Final Cut Pro, Amnesia
Rediscovering video editing after years away — relearning Final Cut Pro, building a color grading workflow, and trying to figure out what my visual style actually is.
18 months of edits
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in-progressProject: Find My Shit
Building a self-hosted asset tracking system using Bluetooth tags, ESPHome scanners, and Home Assistant — because losing your keys should be a solvable problem.
4 trackers
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The Home Assistance Journey
How a Raspberry Pi in a drawer became the backbone of a fully automated apartment — dashboards, voice control, and automations that actually work.
47 automations
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completedProject: Lab Desk
Designing and building a dedicated maker workspace — a custom desk with integrated power distribution, LED task lighting, tool organization, and a proper soldering station.
1 dream workspace
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From Tile to Pain: My Outdoor Stair Decay Answer
Replacing deteriorating outdoor tile stairs with integrated LED stair lighting — a construction project that became a smart lighting project that became an electrical project.
12 stair lights
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The Rabbit Hole of Self Hosting
A journey into running your own services — from a single Raspberry Pi to a proper homelab with Proxmox, VMs, containers, and a healthy obsession with uptime.
6 services running