Soooooo I love my boat. It’s totes mah boat and it’s awesome.
Butttttt a hard wood floor that I could then build off of would be even better.
So, here’s the plan.
Intex Excursion 5: Adding a Wood Floor
Remote Building Entry Hack: Step 3 – The Beta Build
So, we’ve now got a working prototype built. It does the following bits:
- Allows us to remotely trigger the door lock mechanism from a smartphone.
- Sends us notification alerts via Push to our smartphone.
Bits still pending:
- Smartphone to wall box communication (via panel Mic wire).
- Wall box to smartphone communication (via panel Speaker wire).
After doing some research on how to best accomplish a bunch of these tasks I stumbled upon an awesome library that is taking care of a lot of the heavy lifting for me: Blynk.
Remote Building Entry Hack: Step 2 – The Alpha Build
So, first of all let me state for the record I had 3 Grande House Margaritas this evening, one of which was a Coronarita, and I may be a little incoherent at this point.
Down to business: we have a working prototype alpha of the Remote Building Entry Unlocker. It doesn’t do anything fancy. If you push the button at the door, it rings the buzzer, lights up the unit, and then unlocks the door. Woo!
It is a little more complex than one would expect, since the Arduino can’t sense above 5v, and the door panel is 12v. Also the Arduino native ports can’t really trigger a relay coil off anything not the 5v rail (though I suppose I could have just used a pin as ground with a toggle on that, but it’s neither here nor there).
Here’s the build and code.
Remote Building Entry Hack: Step 1 – The Planning
Sooooooo last night my roommate and I started talking about ways to make entry/exit of the apartment easier, and I brought up Smart Door Locks. This naturally led us to a discussion of how we could get someone into the actual building so we could then let them use the Smart Door Lock to get into our specific apartment.
He mentioned it would be cool to have some sort of remote control for the buzzer/intercom system and I said it’s so funny you say that because I’ve been thinking about that too. I said, it’s probably a simple wire jumper that triggers it.
Well, I was right. And now I have a new project to work on. 🙂 This will be an on-going series, because I think this is fscking awesome.
On: Apache and Auth
Pic not relevant to the discussion, admittedly. >_>
So, I’m a bit behind on posts this month because of dealing with landlord and contract negotiations, as well as studying for my boat safety certificate exam. Sorry about that!
Today we bring the question about apache and auth: why is it peculiar?
Car Maintenance Logs
Well, I’ve had some people say they don’t believe that I do that full suite of checks twice a month, so I figured I kick that shit in the ass right now and just prove it to ya.
Here’s the maintenance/diagnostic log from 4/30/17.
On: PHP as a Weird Thing
So, today at work I was working on a mileage tracking webform (more on that another day). I took a brief break to clear my head, and stumbled across a very interesting tweet.
I, of course, did not bookmark it at the time because I thought it was a trivial question and a trivial answer.
Review: Parrot Bebop 2
For those who might not be aware, I recently acquired a Parrot Bebop 2 FPV and have been toying around with it almost exclusively since getting it.
Since I’ve had it for almost a month now it’s time to jot down my thoughts about it.
In a nutshell, pretty awesome, but has it’s own flaws.
Let’s get into it.
Why one Republican voted to kill privacy rules: “Nobody has to use the Internet” | Ars Technica
Republicans encounter angry citizens after killing online privacy rules.
Source: Why one Republican voted to kill privacy rules: “Nobody has to use the Internet” | Ars Technica
Filed from the “Is Anybody Actually Surprised At This Point” Department.
Lemon Ricotta Pancakes with Blueberry Compote/Sauce
This is once again a recipe I’ve pulled from Reddit, and reproducing here for posterity’s sake. It is a recipe I’ve made exactly once, but it is VERY tasty and I’m very happy with it (except the Blueberry Compote which came out more like a Blueberry Sauce, but I think I have a fix for that).
As always, the result comes before the instructions.
