Fridge Bottle Rack
2022-06-17
3dprinting
Earlier this year I solved the problem of untidy drinking water bottles in my refridgerator - here’s how
Updated Grafana Dashboard for pfSense Network Activity
2022-06-11
Infrastructure
Observability
During the week an engineer from France reached out to me via LinkedIn asking if I could share the Grafana dashboard for pfSense that I screenshotted in my post on...
Google Pixel 3A XL Phone Stand
2022-01-16
Gear
3dprinting
I’ve been playing with alternative phone platforms on and off for a few months now and I’m pretty much ready to make my Google Pixel 3A XL running GrapheneOS my...
Librespeed Prometheus Exporter
2021-11-28
Infrastructure
Observability
This weekend I put together a Prometheus exporter to wrap the librespeed-cli. This is an alternative to the Ookla speedtest-cli which I’ve been using until now with the advantages that...
A Prometheus Exporter for 52pi UPS Boards
2021-07-10
Observability
Opensource
Iot
I’m waiting for a final part (specifically 10 meters of four-core telephone cable) so that I can continue my weather station build, but one part that has finally arrived is...
Weather Station v2
2021-06-05
Observability
Farming
Iot
Weather station
Time to catch up on the additions and improvements on the weather station since I built the first MVP.
Irrigation Pipe Clips
2021-05-30
3dprinting
Farming
Here’s a quick post about another functional print for our Bangkok condo. This is an example of what I love about 3D printing - the ability to come up with...
Drop File Box With 3D Printed Rails
2021-05-26
3dprinting
A while back I had a small under desk Ikea drawer unit with a drawer for Ikea Summera drop files. This was great for a while but eventually the drawer...
Weather Station v1
2021-05-23
Observability
Farming
Iot
Weather station
I need a weather station and this weekend I started building one. I’ll be working on this on-and-off over the next few months so I figured I’d post progress updates...
Using Prometheus Relabeling to Attach Custom Metadata
2021-04-03
Infrastructure
Observability
In my homelab, some nodes are expected to be running 24x7 (e.g. my monitoring host) while others are online only when needed (e.g. the Octoprint node that controls my 3D...