Connecting a WebTV in 2022
Want to just connect? — Skip straight to the hardware setup and script sections. WebTV was a service launched in 1996 that brought this amazing new internet craze right into your living room, and it was a pretty compelling device for its time. You could view newsgroups, join IRC chatrooms, send emails, browse the web, […]
openHAB scripts with Rhasspy MQTT
I’m in the process of replacing my voice assistants with a more private, home-based solution that keeps everything inside the local network. I had originally decided on using Rhasspy in a server/satellite configuration to collect voice commands, and Home Assistant to manage turning things on and off. I changed to openHAB after trying and failing […]
Android Raspberry Pi display over USB
Sometimes you really want to play with a Raspberry Pi, but don’t have a display, keyboard, or mouse handy, and the wifi isn’t configured correctly to just be able to SSH in. Invariably you spend an hour digging around for a keyboard or refreshing a wireless clients list, but this doesn’t have to be the […]
A Raspberry Pi clock for your kitchen, and nowhere else
My kitchen was missing something. I’d looked at clocks and artwork, but none of the options were simultaneously affordable and nerdy enough for my liking. What I needed was a way to incorporate my love of thrift store finds and coding into something functional, attractive, and unique that would cause my visitors to be delighted […]