Our upcoming @_kernelcon_ workshop (more info here) is all about locally controlled smart-home stuff (#nocloud). The plan all along was to use @home_assistant and @snips to have our newly modified smart plugs be 100% controlled, and voice enabled, without using any cloud services. I was going to pull my snips…
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Kids + snowday = #hackery
It snowed this past weekend. a lot. #snowday today. Thanks to @snapcircuits, my son (4 yrs) and daughter (5yrs) decided they would work on launching some indoor projectiles. After a discussion around batteries (more = better) the kiddos decided we needed to try to hit the ceiling fan. What followed…
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Boxes of supplies for Kernelcon arrived yesterday
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We’re leading a workshop in the hardware hacking village at kernelcon later this spring – https://kernelcon.org/con Supplies arrived today! So many boxes…what could they be? OH! Smartplugs that connect to an unsecured public server — yay :-\ We’ll be leading a session on disassembling these things, soldering up an interface…
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