Update on blog migration The comment system is now partly in place. Existing comments are now migrated to the new system. It is still not possible to add new comments or reply to existing ones. Th...
New and updated blog
Welcome to this fancy new and updated blog! I migrated the old Wordpress based one to this new Jekyll one, which is easier to maintain. Also i did some maintenance on the old posts (checking for b...
Setting up a bluetooth device for use with serial communication in Linux
In this post I will explain how to setup a Bluetooth device (for example a GPS receiver) so that it can be used for serial communication through Linux’ rfcomm system. I created some Bash scripts to...
Setting up a Kubernetes cluster on Digital Ocean with SSL
It is now possible to create/maintain Kubernetes clusters on Digital Ocean quite easily. In this post I will show you how to create a cluster with a pod that has a public endpoint; this endpoint wi...
Music theory part 1 - Basic Intervals and chords
Recently I started to take on my old hobby of music making and playing the keyboard, so i had also the need to brush up my knowledge on music theory These series of posts are mostly a summary for m...
New screenshots of the FruitHAP Android App
With the upcoming FruitHAP Android App you can control your FruitHAP setup from anywhere in your network. Here are some screenshots: In the dashboard you can control all switches etc. and see all...
Temperature sensor with Arduino
I wanted to have a cheap temperature sensor to use with my home automation system (FruitHAP). This sensor must be able to send its temperature through a 433 Mhz RF link since I have already a 433 M...
FruitHAP - Part 1
In this series of posts I will describe my own C# based Home Automation platform FruitHAP What is FruitHAP FruitHAP is my home-made home automation system, designed to run on a Raspberry Pi. The ...
A blinking light with Raphael.js
For my Freeboard based dashboard for my home automation system (that’s a thing i will talk about in another post ) i was looking for a fancy blinking LED style light. Basically i wanted it to have ...
Kanban-Warrior sees its first birth!
In a previous post I described how you can implement a Kanban board with Task Warrior. To make life a bit easier when using the flow, especially moving between the stages, I made a wrapper script a...