XPA Home Brew
Ingredients Wort: 20L ready-to-use, All-Inn “mosaic hopped extra pale ale” Yeast: M44 Mangrove Jacks West Coast Bittering Hops: Amarillo and Citra (50/50) […]
Author: Brett
Make and Repair Hiking Gear: MYOG
Seam sealing This is the first thing to go on a tent. My snow tent was fine except for the seams – […]
ESP32 Development Environment – Bleeding Edge ESP-IDF v4.1 with cmake
There’s a few options to program the esp32: Arduino IDE : good. Heaps of support and tutorials. Some key limitations for ESP32, […]
WebApp Development for a Esp32 Arduino Sketch
AJAX or websockets will allow nicer development. I’m trying BootStrap to get a tidy interface. Bootply.com and layitout.com enable you to easily […]
ESP32 Tricks and Tips
Time Keeping The ESP32 docs say you can set the RTC to keep time in deep sleep (“RTC clock is used to […]
Mini Battery and Solar Powered Timelapse Camera
I wanted a small, battery-powered timelapse camera. First I tried mobile phones but they were not stable in the long term. Previously […]
Use Monit on AWS and Ubuntu
Examples # Monit local http process check process httpd with pidfile /var/run/httpd/httpd.pid start program = “/usr/bin/systemctl httpd start” stop program = “/usr/bin/systemctl […]
Architectural Hacking
Layout Moves Sometimes it’s hard to predict which layout will look best – often the plan (i.e “in plan”, looking down) is […]
Time Lapsing – Android
1. App to Take Photos There’s a lot of apps, but few are suitable for longer-term use. The main problem is if […]