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I intend to use this site to document my journey down the path of nerdiness (past, present, and future). I’ve been learning over the years from various sites like what I hope this one becomes, and want to give back. I have a wide variety of topics I’d like to cover. At a minimum, posting about my activities will help me document what I learned to refer back in the future. I’ll also post about projects we do ourselves around the house instead of hiring professionals, saving big $$$$ in the process. Hope you enjoy the journey with me!
Below are some topic I plan on covering (I’ve already done something with every one of these and plan on documenting it):
- RTL-SDRs (receiving signals from your electric meter, ADS-B, general radio stuff)
- Virtual machines and my homelab setup
- Home automation / smart home (Home Assistant, Tasmota, Phillips Hue bulbs, automating various tasks throughout the house)
- My mini solar setup (2x300W panels) and not-so-mini battery backup (8x272Ah LiFePO4 batteries – should yield 7ish kWh of storage)
- Remote control aircraft running Arduplane with video downlink and two-way telemetry
- General computer stuff (building them, what I use mine for, Hyper-V)
- Home network (Ubiquiti setup, VLANs, wiring the house with CAT6, IP security cameras on Blue Iris)
- Formation of my LLC if anyone wants to hear about that
- The wheel options trading strategy
- Cryptocurrency (mining focus)
- SCADA (my day job)
- 3D printing
- Engine tuning (for my old WRX and new F-150)
- All the cool things you can do with a Raspberry pi and other SBCs
- Arduino/ESP32/ESP8266 automation devices
- My electric bikes
- Microsecond accurate Raspberry Pi NTP appliance using GPS pulse per second (PPS) timing signals
- DIY multi-zone sprinkler system install
- Drone survey of property
- Securing this WordPress site from hackers (Fail2Ban at both WordPress and system service level)
- Backing up WordPress sites
- General Linux tips/tricks
- VPNs (openvpn and wireguard)