joe_archer

joined 1 year ago
[–] joe_archer@feddit.uk 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dude. Brother was founded in 1908.

[–] joe_archer@feddit.uk 11 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Why would they? What advantage do they gain from doing so, compared to not?

[–] joe_archer@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

I mean I can share pics, but it's a fairly run of the mill Victorian terrace. 11 foot ceilings and a picture rail in the lounge which is nice. A few of the original features remain. Compared to a lot of the houses in the Georgian market town I live in, mine is positively new.

[–] joe_archer@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

My house. Built in the 1840s.

[–] joe_archer@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yorkshire Gold, a drop of milk 1 sugar, and a hobnob.

[–] joe_archer@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

All of my wall sockets include usb power outlets, so they're all powered via those, I'm currently working on using an 18650 or 2 to power one as an experiment, but as they're WiFi and need to react in a timely manner putting the microcontroller into sleep mode isn't really an option, meaning the battery life won't be very good. The RADAR module needs a solid 5v as well so I'm not sure it will be practical.

[–] joe_archer@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
[–] joe_archer@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I build my own using EspHome. I tend to use a D1 Mini as the microcontroller as it has a small footprint and a LD2411S sensor module (very cheap on AliExpress ) I'm lucky enough to have a 3d printer to make my own enclosures.

[–] joe_archer@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago

This Old Tony - amateur machinist and pair of disembodied hands, making impeccably edited, brilliantly written content. He's entertaining and funny. I'm not interested in machining but I've watched every single one of his vids.

[–] joe_archer@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I moved all of my movement/presence sensors to mm wave RADAR, they're relatively cheap and much more reliable than PIR.

[–] joe_archer@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Laid in a hospital bed, post op. Sore but otherwise ok. TIL that they now glue you back together, I have no stitches.

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