First coat of poly on these drawer faces.

Epoxy pour tonight. Fingers crossed!

Love me some CNC. Next stop: epoxy town.

Got some time in the shop today to make some progress.

Getting there...

Before and after:

General Finishes water based poly and hand rubbed paste wax.

On today's episode of "if it's stupid and it works..." we've got an esp32 connected to an hc-sr04 ultrasonic sensor to detect whether or not the garage door is open in order to turn on the garage lights (already using a Shelly relay). Node-RED inside Home Assistant does the logic for this one.

Gonna fix this garage light issue. ESP32 with an HC-SR04 mounted above the overhead door will give me door status. I'll fire the light relay when the distance changes indicating a door open event.

Making some bookends for my daughter. Remedial woodworking with shop scraps, but somehow fulfilling!

Thanks so much. The controller is about 10' from the sensor (and through the floor to the basement where the PSU is mounted) so I used 18-6 wire. That kinda takes STEMMA QT out of the running. The photo was from my testing. I actually soldered the 18awg directly to the sensor. It felt so wrong!

I don't love this.

This is just crazy enough to work.

#esp32

I asked AI to draw me a picture of two solenoids being powered separately. It's just awful. So, so awful.

There's yer problem..

#cablefail

Blast from the past! This is how I tackled imaging computers 20 years ago. Symantec Ghost 7.5 and a giant unmanaged switch in the garage. Stack 'em up!

Here's the third version of the controller I built for this project. The project: place your foot under the kitchen base cabinet toe kick to trigger solenoids that turn off the water. The ultrasonic version didn't work as well (HC-SR04) so the new one is VL6810X time-of-flight.

#esp32
#adafruit

Just building up some mana here. This is a #wled #esp32 WS2812B project that came together from leftover scraps. The wood was just junk I had laying the shop, and I had 4' of strip leftover from another project. I cut a channel in the back of the stick of wood to lay in the strip.

Introduction Post! I'm into:

Technology
Woodworking
Electronics
General tinkery/fixery

I like to make and build stuff that's cool and/or solves problems. Check out a couple things I'm proud of. I even added alt text!