Smartifying Dumb Speakers

The goal of this project is to make an old speaker function as a smart speaker. I want to select a speaker on Spotify, and then have some of my old speakers from the 80’s play that music. I already did something like this in my Smarthome Saga Part 1 blog post. The issue with that setup is that every set of speakers need to be listed as a single ... Read more 27 Apr 2024 - 9 minute read

Smarthome Saga Part 1 - Getting Started

Since I first got my own place I’ve wanted to get a “smarthome”. My journey started out with buying an Ikea Trådfri bulb and hub, so that I could have cool RGB lights in my one-bedroom apartment. That was also around the time I first got into Linux and Python. My first foray into interacting with my smarthome outside the scope of the Ikea smarth... Read more 18 Mar 2024 - 7 minute read

A Bad Popcorn Detection Algorithm

My hope is that one day this blog will be filled with overengineered solutions to problems that either don’t exist, or are or of so little concern that they aren’t worth the effort of solving. One such non-problem is knowing when microwave popcorn are done popping. I had the idea when I had some friends over for a visit, and we wanted popcorn. ... Read more 07 Jan 2024 - 8 minute read

Creating my Website

1. My old website 2. My new website 2.1. Idea for the new site 2.2. Technology behind the site 1. My old website This is not the first iteration of my personal website. Back in December 2020 I decided to create my own personal website. My idea was to have a place to showcase whatever projects I had worked on, and... Read more 30 Sep 2023 - 3 minute read

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