A Quick intro…

Hi hi. I was given the name Michael, but tend to use Tadpol instead. (God only knows why.) Sometimes I wonder if I should say anything important here. Other times I think it would be best if I said nothing at all. However, if I am to say nothing at all there would not be much point in having a web site. I like having a web site, so I feel that I must strive to have something to say. Thus I find that I am often saying nothing, but with a great deal many more words than nothing really deserves.

Dreeb! Dreeb! I am a Home Page Virus! Copy me into your home page!

Some Things Said…

Home Assistant Widget for iOS

I wanted a quick glance of some of the data I have collected in Home Assistant on my iPhone. Widgets are the way to go with this. I had some time ago played with a custom widget for weather data using Scriptable. So I dug into adapting that to get its data from my Home Assistant instead of from WunderGround.

Home Energy Usage – Gas

Home Assistant had added energy monitoring some revisions ago. Which nicely plopped one more ting on my want to do list. Oddly enough, the easiest thing to add was the gas meter.

Cactus Monitoring

Collecting the tech used to monitor a cactus. (First post in six years. 😳 so out of practice…)

Coffee In Coffee out; 3D printed

I had held the bits to the cup with hot glue. And next to the hot coffee, the glue would get soft, not melt, but soft. So it sagged.

Twenty Spinners

Twenty fidget spinners made on MP Select Mini 3D printer

Coffee In Coffee out; Inductively Charged

The batteries were always a temporary part of my Coffee In Coffee Out project. I wanted something else that would be better. And when I saw this inductive circuit on Adafruit, I knew what that better was.

Links of yore…

Things are lightly categorized here. Go ahead and poke around.