This is mostly older content about electronics and small DIY projects. I might or might not pick up some more stuff here in the near future.
A Home Assistant integration for 3rd gen Zero Motorcycles using exposed Starcom API
Long story short I was working on a Luminus Home Assistant integration to get my electricity bills in the system when I realised I never
Running Kotlin Applications on a headless Raspberry Pi and other embedded systems
Kotlin is way more than just an Android programming language. And to show you I’ll explain how you can run Kotlin Applications on a headless
HOME ASSISTANT and automation with AQARA WXKG11LM wireless buttons or IKEA TRADFRI switches & SONOFF Zigbee USB dongle
These Aqara wifi buttons can be found for around 10 EUR each on amazon from time to time. Ikea TRADFRI switches are even cheaper and
Updating MEROSS garage door opener to work locally only skipping cloud using my own HOME ASSISTANT MQTT broker
So after failing to use a simple Shelly 1 (v3) for my garage door automation I finally opted for a Meross smart device that is
HEADLESS SETUP on my ENERGICA SS9 Electric Motorcycle to push OBDII data to HOME ASSISTANT
One of the things I still had to fix on my Home Assistant setup monitoring my Energica electric motorcycle was to replace that Android phone
How I’m pushing data from my Energica electric motorcycle to my Home Assistant installation
First a quick disclaimer, I’m literally writing this 3 days after the installation of my Home Assistant setup so I have little experience with that.
Een nieuwe batterij voor m’n Macbook Pro Retina model late 2013
Nog nooit had ik zoveel geld uitgegeven aan een laptop. De vorige was een Macbook Pro 13″ model van 2009 met redelijke specs zoals 8GB
Lipo powered Raspberry Pi
I needed a completely wireless Raspberry Pi so I looked into some battery power options.
Whatever power supply I would use it should end in a
raspberry pi apt-get illegal instruction
After an apt-get dist-upgrade attempt all apt-get calls on a raspberry pi with official raspbian distro returned an unhealthy illegal instruction response.A quick look at my /etc/apt/sources.list
how to start nitro car engine
This is for everyone struggling to get his (first) nitro engine started.Although it’s mostly about car engines this technique can be applied to other nitro
My Ultimaker Experience and Review
About this Ultimaker ReviewIf you just want to know why I picked the Ultimaker instead of any other 3D printer, just check the overview at
Nokia LCD on Raspberry Pi GPIO
Using a Nokia PCD8544 LCD screen on a Raspberry Pi Old Nokia LCD screens, once used for playing snake, are now a great source for your