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Poto-Siril

Rain Alarm for Astrophotography proto 3 - Siren Alarm

You’re reading part 3 of the Rain Alarm for Astrophotography series; part 1 is available here 👋 and part 2 here 👋.

Rain Alarm for Astrophotography proto 2 - Wireless Communication

You’re reading part 2 of the Rain Alarm for Astrophotography series; part 1 is available here 👋.

RAfA (Rain Alarm for Astrophotography)

RAfA (Rain Alarm for Astrophotography) is a plug-and-play system designed for amateur astronomers. It allows them to leave their astrophotography equipment running outside overnight, knowing that they will be notified in case of any unexpected rain.

Rain Alarm for Astrophotography proto 1 - Rain Sensor

So, asking around and searching online, there is no evidence of a ready-to-buy rain alarm that would fit for astrophotography. I’m going to build one.

Managing a Plex server with media files hosted on a remote NAS

At home, I’ve got this NAS server taking care of all my media goodies. It’s a Synology DS414j. If you are a connoisseur, you probably already know it consists of 4-bay drive. Released in 2014, and the “j” stands for low-cost. Featuring 512MB of RAM and a dual core CPU clocked at 1.2GHz, it’s sufficient for “typical NAS chores”, even still today. But toss in a Plex server, and it’s a whole…

Tracking the WhatsApp habits of 5000 random Smartphones

In the previous blog post, we have seen that this is quite simple to hack the WhatsApp online status of a contact. A simple Online or last seen yesterday at 19:00 insight can be reverse engineered to leak phone habits at a couple of seconds accuracy.

3D print of a Bahtinov filter

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Hack the WhatsApp status to track contacts

WhatsApp shares your contacts’ status with you.

Shiny Tiny RPG - Game Dev using Shiny Stats

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