Home Brewing!

With sub tropical temperatures in the Netherlands, I haven’t really found the willpower to hover above my radiating soldering iron last few days. But luckily the mailman delivered something else that could keep me busy while the rest of the country invaded the Dutch beaches. A little bit of home brewing keeps me cold …

Behind my computer ...

Most of my blogs are about my physical projects, my tools like my 3d printer, my Rigol power supply and scope and my beloved soldering iron. But, truth to be told, most of my time is spent behind my computer. Today I’m going to give you a rundown of tools and ingredients I use the most when working on my Mac.

MagicMirror:

MagicMirror², a huge announcement.

When I built my MagicMirror 2 year ago, I could have never predict the popularity of the project. With over 2,5 million pageviews on my blog, 1250 stars and almost 500 forks of the GitHub repository and a growing list of MagicMirror builders, the MagicMirror project deserves some extra love. Time to announce something awesome!

The MQTT Bug Hunt!

Now that I’ve got my home fully MQTT connected, it’s time to use the data I gather from my sensors. Since I’m a big Node.js lover, I wrote some scripts that handle the data and do some magic. Unfortunately I ran into an annoying bug …