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Plus, bonus short video! 😁

Posted on 26 September 2024, 20:45

And then the thunder rolled in with a vengeance. We had a few claps that caused me to actually jump out of my seat.

our house darkroom video thunderstorm

Posted on 29 November 2023, 15:53

Bloody hell, this storm! (It was significantly darker than it looks here, but the iPhone did its best to lighten things up.)

our house darkroom rain video thunderstorm

Posted on 29 November 2023, 15:43

That was certainly a lot more hail than we've received in a while!

our house video storm hail

Posted on 7 April 2023, 17:29

I recorded a thing on the drums!! 😁 (The backing track isn't mine, full credit to Jack Curtis of https://drumdrumdrum.org; all his stuff is up on Bandcamp, highly recommended: https://drumlessbackingtracks.bandcamp.com). I screwed up slightly in a couple of places because I'm used to watching the iPad in front of me and knowing when time changes are coming from there but I kept having to look over at the computer to my left instead. I've subsequently realised that I can use the iPad as an extended monitor for the laptop and can move the track time display over to that. I also discovered the fun* of getting audio and video synced up, and how despite the fact that the iPhone says it's shooting video at 60 frames per second, it's ACTUALLY 59.94 and so by the end of the song the audio I recorded directly in Logic Pro had drifted significantly from the video. Thankfully iMovie has a "Speed Editor" where you can get it all lined back up again. But eeeee! Absolutely stoked with this!

our house music video drums logic pro

Posted on 12 February 2023, 18:56

A photo of a bunch of kids plus some adults playing in an in-ground pool in a backyard.

Excellent NYE thus far, good weather for a pool party and throwing water balloons.

darkroom friends pool video seven hills

Posted on 31 December 2022, 16:10

Beanie's favourite thing to do is to paw at his blanket across basically the entire room and back again. Occasionally he'll manage to get it out of the door and into the hallway. I stopped this video when he looked up at me after I creaked the chair, but it went on for another like two minutes afterwards.

beanie our house darkroom video

Posted on 30 December 2022, 22:31

I haven't done anything with the actual ESP32/physical button thing yet, but I got the software side of my "remotely turn the Raspberry Pi displays on and off" project done! The core is a very simple Node.js service that runs on the Pis directly (https://github.com/VirtualWolf/hyperpixel-brightness-control) and subscribes to an MQTT topic that contains messages indicating whether the display should be on or off, then writes directly to the GPIO pin to control the display brightness. I updated my Pi Home Dashboard (https://github.com/VirtualWolf/pi-home-dashboard) to add an HTTP endpoint that'll send messages to that same topic the display-attached Pis are subscribed to, and the shortcuts in the video are simply calling that endpoint. I'm using the "retain" MQTT flag for the messages sent to the display status topic so even if the Pis reboot for whatever reason, the last known state is what they'll start up with again when they come up. And finally, instead of a cronjob set on each individual Pi to automatically turn the displays off at midnight and back on at 8am, I've got one running on the main Raspberry Pi 4B that runs the MQTT broker that just sends the required message to the MQTT topic and the Pis with the display attached dutifully turn on or off as necessary.

raspberry pi diy video

Posted on 11 September 2022, 11:36

I made an LED go blinky and fadey! (This is attached to my ESP32 running MicroPython because I'm more familiar with that than C++ on an Arduino.)

our house diy video esp32

Posted on 17 July 2022, 11:41

REALLY hoping we don't end up with smashed solar panels after this storm... (Update: they were fine!)

our house video storm

Posted on 14 October 2021, 16:18