I honestly thought my obsession with Starship was easing… turns out all it took was flight 12 (the first flight of version 3 of Starship), and, well… I got a bit carried away and made a SpaceX launch viewer for AppleTV and iPad. It started out as a little experiment with the X API, just …
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Solar air quality sensors
A few moons ago I built a BalenaOS deployed set of Enviro+ air quality sensors for my Raspberry Pi Zero. It’s been sitting indoors monitoring our air for a while, waiting for me to build an environment proof case and solar for it so I could deploy it outside. Parts Code Having some annual leave …
ChatGPT with your voice
From S.A.M. on the Commodore 64 to a SwiftUI iOS app that simulates Samantha from Her.
CO2 sensor and iOS/macOS app
Building a portable CO2 sensor with data logging, Apple Siri/HomeKit integration, and an iOS/macOS app.
CO2 x COVID-19 x live music
While planning on attending a live music venue for the first time in ~2 years, I decided the only way I’d feel safe doing so was being able to calculate the CO2 ppm live.
Low flow shower head
We replaced our 90s shower head with a low flow 5 L/min shower head
Sending data over LTE
Sending air quality sensor data over a mobile LTE network with a Blues Notecard.
Storing sensor data
Choosing a timeseries database to store lots of air quality sensor data.
Enviro+ air quality sensors
Pimoroni Enviro+ air quality sensors exporting their data to Prometheus and graphed by Grafana.
Air quality sensor network
Learning from the previous air quality sensors we built, I’m keen to provide some time to plan and deploy a prototype of some new hardware, and here’s where I need your help to fund the initial build.