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Converting Shrooly Light Levels into Lux

How to convert Shrooly's LED brightness percentages into standard lux measurements for mushroom growing

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Shrooly Mushroom Device Teardown

Introduction I recently (after a very long wait) received my Shrooly Mushroom Growing Device. It seems to work pretty well and produced a few crops of tasty mushrooms before failing with a …

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Year of the Dragon Celebration

Here’s a collection of images I took at the Asian Pacific Association of Longmont Lunar New Year celebration at Silver Creek High School in Longmont. Most of these are shot with slow shutter …

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Tunnelling with ZeroTier & EdgeRouter

Introduction This post serves as a personal reference and guide for setting up a tunnel and NAT configuration using ZeroTier and an EdgeRouter. The goal is to route certain machines from my home …

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B2 Processing/Max/Syphon/Resolume Demo

Introduction I recently had the chance to build something in the Atlas B2, a cool space that has multiple projectors, mocap, lights, and 40-speaker surround sound. I’d done a number of cool …

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ESPHome Auto-Restart Script

Introduction Running various services at home can be a great convenience, but it’s incredibly frustrating when the network goes down and you’re not there to restart everything. I’ve …

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Using my Simple Cloudflare Comments plugin

Introduction I developed Simple Cloudflare Comments to fulfil the need I had for a lightweight, edge-hosted comments engine. It’s written in Typescript and runs on Cloudflare’s edge …

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Now with comments!

Introduction As part of a class assignment, I got a little bit of time to work on a code project of my choosing. I’d like to have comments on my site, but got frustrated at the crappy, …

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Seeed Studio 60GHz mmWave Sensor - Human Resting Breathing and Heartbeat Module Review

Introduction I recently bought a tiny 60GHz radar module to use in a project. This is a really neat little board that claims to be able to read breathing and heart rate data from a subject with 90% …