Archives

A friend's idea I wanted to see if I could build: send a keyword to a LoRa node, get a short Wikipedia answer back, written by Hermes.

How I connected Obsidian, Hermes, Discord, and Home Assistant into a practical second brain for documenting and operating a home lab.

A Pi 3B captures yard audio over USB, streams it with MediaMTX and FFmpeg, and feeds BirdNET-Go on the home server for live species detection.

A Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and Waveshare 7.3" colour e-paper display running InkyPi — calendar, weather, and comics on a glanceable screen.

Bringing flight tracking to life on a physical display with a Raspberry Pi Pico W, CircuitPython, and an RGB LED Matrix.

A personal Android Auto app that shows live aircraft on a map, with optional LiveATC playback.

Building a custom arcade controller, housing a Raspberry Pi 5 in a mini NES case, and getting classic arcade games running.

Adding a real-time interactive map and historical flight schedule prediction to my ADSB tracking suite.

A rundown of the latest updates to my local ADSB flight tracker dashboard, including static route mapping and a new dedicated military aircraft monitor.

A look back at the ADSB Data Display project I built to track and categorize local aircraft.

How to embed a live flight tracking map on an Astro blog using local ADSB receiver data.

A guide on registering a custom domain and configuring NGINX to route traffic to a home lab.