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IndieWebCamp Brighton kicks off with @adactio welcoming us and giving an outline for the day
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ooh 5 minutes til boarding and the seat next to me is still open and i might have this nice 2-up to myself! 🤞
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I had a couple hours in DC before my flight so I went to the International Spy Museum! It was a pretty fun collection of exhibits and random artifacts from the last couple hundred years of espionage history.
#InternationalSpyMuseum #DC #WashingtonDC #travel
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IndieWebCamp Amsterdam day 1 was amazing! Lots of great discussions, and as usual, I end the day with so many more ideas for what I want to create for my website next.
Tomorrow's challenge will be to figure out which I can accomplish in a day, and then do that.
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Confirmed. German airport coffee is not as good as Australian airport coffee. 👎
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Happy Monday from Sydney! It feels like Spring out here!
No time for jet lag, gotta run to meetings all day!
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anyone else feel like google have been losing their touch lately?
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My bag check number for today at XOXO. I hope this isn't a sign.
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Going home for the night. Gotta charge the kitten battery! Great to see everyone tonight at @xoxo!
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and now the light behind the litter box glows red when it's dirty and green when it's clean! No more needing to peer into the little door to look for stuff in the box!
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Just made my first Node-RED flow to detect whether the litter box is dirty or clean!
1: When motion in the litter box is detected, wait 5 seconds, check if the door is closed, and if so, set to "dirty"
2: When the door is opened, set to "clean"
Took a bit to figure out all the Node-RED terminology and figuring out how to "think" in that model, but I do appreciate not having to write code to do this now!
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Finished the picture frame that shows my upcoming travel!
It shows my current location and local time, the dates of my next trip, and my departing or arriving flight information!
Let's call this v1 tho, because I need to get a better matte for the frame, not just the cheap cardboard that came with it that i tore while cutting it. I might spring for a bigger display next time too!
But overall I'm pretty happy with it!
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I've reached the point that a day trip to the Bay Area from Portland is effectively the same as a "long commute to work". I'm also pretty sure this is still shorter than some peoples' commutes within the Bay Area.
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well that was one of the nicest sunsets I've seen from an airplane in a while!
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Working on a little display that will sit in a picture frame and show my next upcoming flight!
Powered by a raspberry pi which parses the flights from the microformats on my website, and shows either the next upcoming trip, or if I'm currently away, shows the details of the flight home.
This e-paper display is really nice looking too!
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I made more progress on the cat feeder tonight!
I attached the motor to the back, and the shaft now goes thru and connects to the original (modified) plastic shaft from the dispenser.
The lid has an ultrasonic distance sensor pointing down at the food to be able to tell how much is left in the chute.
There's a button on top to be able to manually dispense a dose.
Lastly, I added a terminal block to connect the wires from the scale for easier mounting to the processor later.
Next up, I need to start connecting all the components to the circuitry! The load cell amplifier, stepper motor driver, and finally the esp32 controller. Then it'll be time to write some software!
#homeautomation #esp32 #arduino #catfeeder #hackyourcat #cathacks
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Adding a couple new sensors tonight. Attempting a sound level sensor (should report roughly how noisy it is inside), and a color temperature sensor, which I'm hoping can tell me how cloudy it is outside and how much sun is coming in the window.
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I just installed this neat motor which can drive the chain on my blinds! Now I'm brainstorming various rules to cause the blinds to open and close. So far:
• Close the blinds once the sun is high enough to start shining into the room
• Open the blinds when the sun goes down in the evening
• Close the blinds when the TV turns on
• Close the blinds when I get in bed
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Working with people in both Europe and Australia basically means there are zero hours where you don't get emails and slack messages. It's always someone's work day 24 hours around the clock.
