Builds, experiments, and field notes from a maker. Code, hardware, home automation, and whatever else catches my eye.https://makeventures.netlify.app/https://makeventures.netlify.app/blog/ai-yai-yai/https://makeventures.netlify.app/blog/ai-yai-yai/Without the vast knowledge and capability of Commander Data, Captain Jean-Luke Picard would not have been nearly as effective or successful in battle. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:44:00 GMTIgor Samukhttps://makeventures.netlify.app/blog/balcony-garden-esp8266/https://makeventures.netlify.app/blog/balcony-garden-esp8266/Building a soil moisture monitoring system with a $3 microcontroller, a handful of sensors, and way too much time reading datasheets.Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMTIgor Samukhttps://makeventures.netlify.app/blog/home-assistant-raspberry-pi/https://makeventures.netlify.app/blog/home-assistant-raspberry-pi/How I set up Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4 to start automating my home — and why I wish I had done it sooner.Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMTIgor Samukhttps://makeventures.netlify.app/blog/home-lab-grafana-prometheus/https://makeventures.netlify.app/blog/home-lab-grafana-prometheus/Setting up a proper metrics stack to finally understand what my home server is actually doing at any given moment.Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMTIgor Samukhttps://makeventures.netlify.app/blog/home-server-proxmox/https://makeventures.netlify.app/blog/home-server-proxmox/I had an old gaming PC collecting dust, a free weekend, and a copy of Proxmox. Here is what happened.Fri, 15 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMTIgor Samukhttps://makeventures.netlify.app/blog/little-library/https://makeventures.netlify.app/blog/little-library/Modernize and expand on data collection of a front-lawn Library Exchange with ESPHOME and Home AssistantFri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTIgor Samukhttps://makeventures.netlify.app/blog/videography-first-six-months/https://makeventures.netlify.app/blog/videography-first-six-months/What I learned after picking up a Sony ZV-E10, shooting a lot of bad footage, and slowly figuring out what I was doing wrong.Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMTIgor Samukhttps://makeventures.netlify.app/blog/whoami/https://makeventures.netlify.app/blog/whoami/Just a guy with insatiable curiosity about the world and the way things work.Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:04:00 GMTIgor Samuk