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Simple Capacitive Water Sensor for a Water Container
From simple, standard electric cable I built a capacitive sensor to assess the water level in my water container. While the circuit was replicated from this blog (thanks for sharing!), I’d like to...
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European WordPress Bloggers beware: “Abmahnwelle” due to Google Fonts!
WordPress admins are currently sued for using Google Fonts directly from the Google servers without correctly informing users about the data collection by Google. I give a few hints on how to protect...
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Soil Water Sensors: Problems with the Ubiquitous DFRobot Capacitative Sensors
Capacitative soil moisture sensors based on this DFRobot-design (and its successors) can be found in numerous blog articles about irrigation automation. For me, they do not work out for two reasons: a)...
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My Next Media Center Iteration: Intel NUC8i3BEH
My Raspberry Pi 4 based media center has some issues, which I was able to resolve by switching to an Intel NUC8i3BEH platform. I was able to make the device quiet despite of its fan, and set up...
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Media Center Auto Shutdown and RTC Wakeup Based on tvheadend Recording Schedule
I created a script that runs via cron job that will power off my media center if it is not in use, but will program the real time clock (RTC) on the motherboard to wake up the system in time to run a...
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CEC-like Power Features with Non-CEC-Equipment
With a Raspberry Pico, I monitor my Sony amplifier from the 90s and my 2013 Dell monitor, and switch on my NUC-based media center if any of these devices are switched on. This is comparable to the CEC...
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Getting WordPress Brute Force Login Attacks Down to Zero
I was always mildly concerned of the brute force logon attempts to my blog. Using plugins, I renamed the login page and disabled the XML-RPC API calls that require login. As a result, I was able to...
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Superatlas Goes Vector! Part III: How to Modify the OSM Data Selection and/or...
In this last (and longest) part of the Superatlas-goes-vector-series I’ll explain how to influence the process of selecting OSM data and adding them to the vector layers. This mainly revolves around a...
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Superatlas Goes Vector! Part II: Creating and Using the Offline Vector Maps
In part I of this series of three posts, I introduced you to the benefits of using vector map data vs. raster map data. In this part I’ll explain the one-time-setup required to use the maps with...
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Next Generation Perfect Offline Hiking Maps – Superatlas Goes Vector! Part I:...
The survey offices of many countries now offer vector maps, so I adopted my previously raster map based hiking maps to use these vector maps. This results in much smaller map files, a sharper display...
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