Media - video

• 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 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 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

• This is the most people I've seen in a spontaneous Destiny 2 dance party!

  destiny2 gaming video

  Posted on 11 October 2021, 23:15

• I love that spontaneous dance parties are still in a thing in Destiny 2. (See also this from Destiny 1 almost six years ago now).

  destiny2 gaming video

  Posted on 31 May 2021, 20:31

• Okay this seriously rules: my guitaring is going well and at the moment I'm practicing some power chords, and have been just using the metronome in BIAS FX Mobile to keep time. I remembered out of the blue that GarageBand has a "virtual drummer" thing where it'll automatically play a whole drum kit for you with all sorts of different styles and presets. BIAS FX can run in the background while doing this, so I gave it a go and it's SO MUCH FUN! Way better than playing along to a metronome. 🤘🏻

  (Yes there's a handful of cocked-up chords in there where my fingers didn't quite get to the right place).

  music video guitar

  Posted on 28 February 2021, 20:23

• Bloody hell, this WIND.

  our house darkroom video storm

  Posted on 25 September 2020, 16:52

• We got home just after midnight last night and Beanie was very excited to see us. After he'd calmed down, he jumped up on the lounge and started FURIOUSLY rearranging his blanket. I always wonder how he decides that he's done, because it's inevitably just as messy as it was before he starts, just in a different configuration of mess.

  beanie our house dog darkroom video

  Posted on 30 August 2020, 11:38

• We're at my parents' place for lunch, and Beanie LOVES the rug they have.

  beanie dog darkroom mum and dad's video

  Posted on 23 August 2020, 12:36