I own a fridge that has a really cool ‘feature’. It beeps if the door is open for more than 60 seconds. 95% of the time this is more annoying than it is helpful. In my opinion it should just shut up and trust that I know best. In pursuit of this behavioural change I first tried to get at the piezo speaker so that I could rip it out. This turned out to be rather fruitless as the main board is deeply embedded within the fridge. I am not really willing to rip it out of the wall to get at the...| Posts on Kennedn's Blog
This year I was gifted a Badger 2040W. This device is essentially a Pi Pico attached to a black and white e-ink display. The device is supposed to be used as a wearable badge. My use case was a little different however. I wanted a home automation controller. This culminated in the restful-badger project, which permits an arbitrary number of RESTful ’tiles’ to be configured. Each tile can control and get state over HTTP. The problem One of the major design decisions for the software was th...| Posts on Kennedn's Blog
I own a very old ‘flat’ screen television from 2009. One of the reason this TV is still kicking around is because I have a strange sentimental affection for it. Another is that I have written automation for it that works really well and it would be a pain to migrate away from it. It does have a problem however, the TV tends to hit resonance frequency very often with its built-in speakers, causing the body of the unit to vibrate something awful and produce some ear wrenching sounds as a re...| Posts on Kennedn's Blog
I recently bought a cheap Tapo indoor camera to see what my dog gets up to when I am out of the house.| kennedn.com