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Modding Beat Saber on the Quest 3 with QuestPatcher

Using QuestPatcher and SideQuest to mod Beat Saber on the Quest 3 to add custom songs and mods

05 November 2023 8 min read

John Smith, Googlebot and abandoned shopping carts

GoogleBot is pretending to be an e-commerce customer called John Smith and abandoning the order at the payment stage

07 September 2023 3 min read

First year of data and savings from Solar PV array upgrade

Our solar PV system has saved us £847.18 in the past 12 months, and heating the hot water for free on sunny days with the myenergy eddi solar diverter

02 September 2023 8 min read

Buying Used Test Equipment from Ham Radio Rallies

Visiting FRARS Hamfest in Wimborne and buying used test equipment from Ham radio rallies

21 August 2023 9 min read

Amazon Echo Pop Smart Speaker teardown

New teardown and looking inside the latest Amazon Echo Pop smart home speaker and Amazon Alexa smart home device

23 July 2023 13 min read

TP Link Tapo TC65 Camera image capture using OpenCV for a webcam

Using a low-cost tp-link Wi-Fi security camera and OpenCV, a popular computer vision library, we have created a Python script that captures high-quality images from the RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol) video stream generated by the camera and uploads to our Virtual Swanage tourism website.

02 July 2023 12 min read

Learning Code, Raspberry Pi, Fruit, and Growing Food

May 2023 updates, website changes and projects and how we grow our own food on a small allotment

06 May 2023 8 min read

Air Quality in Your Home: Measuring using Home Assistant with Ikea Vindriktning and Netatmo

Using Home Assistant with Ikea Vindriktning & Netatmo to measure the air quality in your home or office.

15 January 2023 11 min read

Energy Savings and Solar PV Upgrade, Six Months of Data

After lots of small changes to our usage, device upgrades and replacing some old household appliances, our energy usage is around 45% lower

27 December 2022 13 min read

Amazon Echo Dot 5th Gen Smart Speaker Teardown

Taking a look inside the latest Amazon Echo Dot 5 smart home speaker and Amazon Alexa device, now with a new larger speaker and temperature sensor

28 November 2022 9 min read

ModBus to MQTT WiFi Bridge for a Solis 1.5kW Inverter

Using an ESP32 WiFi module to create a ModBus to MQTT WiFi Bridge for a Solis 1.5kW Solar PV Inverter to log data with Home Assistant

30 October 2022 7 min read

Ham Radio Asterisk Allstar Gateway with a Tait 8110 and Raspberry Pi

Setting up the hardware and software for an AllStar Link Gateway using a Tait TM8110 which is a 25W PMR radio with a Raspberry Pi and USB sound card interface

08 October 2022 16 min read