My goal is to help Makers of all skill levels to find the information that they need to be successful in bringing their creations and ideas to life. This site contains a blog with posting of what I worked on the previous week, what I plan to work on this week, and things that I’ve found interesting in the world of making and hacking. I may occasionally dive into other topics. I hope you find the information in the blogs interesting and would like to get your feedback. Please let me know what things you find interesting.
In addition to the blog posts, there are detailed project builds. These pages will be created and updated over time. The intent of the project pages is to provide step by step guides on how I put my projects together. Please comment if you run into any problems or find errors in the project pages.
Latest Blog Posts
Raspberry Pi NUT Server for UPS Monitoring and Home Assistant
This project turns a Raspberry Pi into a small, always-on server that watches a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) over USB using Network UPS Tools (NUT), and shares what it sees with Home Assistant. Home Assistant then shows the battery charge, load and runtime, and can warn you the moment the power goes out. Written October…
Revisiting the Raspberry Pi Camera
The camera has been more stable but needed restarting quite often then finally failed to restart. Using AI, the following steps were generated in an attempt to improve the stability/availability of the Raspberry Pi Camera over time. This project uses a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and a Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3 to build…
PiBox and KubeSail Are No More
Unfortunately PiBox and KubeSail ended operations in September 2025. I had not used my PiBox too much, just as a scratchpad for WordPress. I decided to reflash it with Raspbian. Below are the steps that I took to reuse my PiBox. Oddly, the only post that I could find about it was at https://lemmy.world/post/38039322. I…
Home Assistant – Wi-Fi
It is recommended to use Home Assistant with a wired connection, however you may need or want to use a Wi-Fi connection. Follow these steps to setup a Wi-Fi connection within Home Assistant. Setup Wi-Fi You have successfully connected Home Assistant server to your Wi-Fi network.
Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi
I can’t believe I have not written up my Home Assistant setup. Perhaps that is a good thing as I needed to become comfortable with the setup and how to use it. I’ve been using it for nearly a year at this point. What prompted me to do a writeup now is I’m setting up…
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