Remember, in the last post, when I was excited that the voltage to the heat pump, and therefore the heatpump, was now both stable and within spec? It was not! The heat pump voltage regulator is liable to trip nightly. It s a whole thing now technically I could get an electrician to put a Continue reading Voltage Monitor Surprise Continues
I know it sounds like a delicious dish, but after getting a heat pump installed, it went unresponsive after the tech left. No lights or sounds at all, and on further inspection the voltage range monitor had an alarm set. It was reading 254V on the 240V line, and as the heat pump had a Continue reading Voltage Range Monitor Surprise
Filament swatches are a good idea. So is labelling them, but I had a lot of trouble getting the label template to line up, and wanted to avoid lots of tedious copy-and-paste around the QR codes. So I made this: (the image is also a link) Getting the PDF sized correctly was a huge pain, Continue reading Filament swatches
I couldn’t get a marquee animation working so I noodled around with single pixels and got a nice result: It’s not a simple loop of the two movement directions it gets gradually dimmer and faster, and then returns.
I made a 10 Ah solar powered charger! It uses an Adafruit solar/DC battery charger board and a 5V booster. The case is 3D-printed in two parts the lower shell and the lid. As is visible, the lid screws down into the shell. Both boards that things plug into are screwed down as well Continue reading Solar Charger
My mower boundary wire got a break in it this spring, and unlike previous times, I didn t know why. So now I had to check the perimeter of my lawn for damage, and in most cases the wire is underground or at least undergrass. Turns out there s a better way! It took shoving a LONG Continue reading Boundary Wire Search
That s what it says on the case, anyway. (Thanks to Hannah for the silly name.) This has been a hobby project for about a year! It s a compact audio player with a clickable control knob, display, and a volume knob on the back. Surface transducers on the bottom allow it depending heavily on the Continue reading Steve s MP3 player 3000
After Ars Technica ran this article on a Stable Diffusion mobile app, it seemed like a good time to give Stable Diffusion another shot. I had previously given up figuring out how to set up the desktop version. It s polished! It includes example prompts to demonstrate what sorts of incantations make up a good prompt, Continue reading Fun with Stable Diffusion
I had figured it wouldn t happen once Ghost Ship Games said they weren t going to tackle it, but it turns out it s viable to mod in! It s in open beta currently, and there are rough edges throughout the experience, but the core of it being in a huge cave and fighting bugs is Continue reading Deep Rock Galactic in VR!
I made button-poe to allow using an Adafruit Feather as a light switch via Home Assistant: