A few hours back, I had a straightforward problem: I needed to access my local server securely from the internet without opening it up to unwanted access. What triggered this need was my own app Free Your Photos – that gets you out of the Google Photo Cloud and hosts your photos on a local server – YOU OWN THEM. Now with this solution I can show my photos on any PC – even without Read more…
This weekend, I had the opportunity to subscribe to “ChatGPT Plus.” I spent some time exploring how AI, like ChatGPT, will change the way we work with our data. Currently, I am working on a large enterprise financial transformation project. So – why not starting with a simple order intake to end-up getting the Profit & Loss statement from ChatGPT? The results were astonishing, which made me wonder if we should rethink the way we Read more…
Speed Up Boot-Time with Menuconfig (ESP32) When you read this, you may have been already going a long way … and I am still walking.. so this is just my latest understanding. Feel free to correct and help me to further detail this out – and be ready that not all below is really correct… but at least … I got it working this way.. 🙂 Why does it take a second to boot? Boot-Time Read more…
In this short post I summarize my development environment using Platformio & Clion. I have adjusted platformio.ini file to include libraries and files needed – so you can start. EdgeImpulse provides a similar setting that fits when you are working with the Arduino IDE. Background I am using Platformio as development platform for embedded projects and CLION as my IDE. Both are integrated and together they provide a consistent way for programming, compiling and deployment Read more…
Intro This will be my new “HomeServer” running https://44-2.de/docbox/ and Openhabian..and more. Its a passive cooled mini PC with Intel i3-8130U, for my needs its equipped with 8GB RAM and a 8GB (2x4GB) Crucial DDR4-2400 CL17 SO-DI RAM and a Samsung SSD 860 EVO Series 1TB. Installing the Hardware Installing Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on ZOTAC ZBOX + The Bacis Very simple and straight forward Create Bootable USB Stick with Etcher Connect with Keyboard , Read more…
15 Seconds to understand the concept! What I want is: A Tiny Touch-Button I can just stick on a wall or desk, without additional wiring, so its battery driven Can be enabled with a simple-touch, so it needs to wake-up from sleep Connects to WiFi and is very flexible, so it needs to have an ESP8266 !!!!! The final solution will have a small battery having the same size as the button — of course Read more…
It all started with an article in my favourite computer magazine Heise – WLAN Plug with Tasmota. So I could control some 220V devices, like a floor lamp with my OpenHAB Super-Cheap – Smart Home Solution Smart Home. Some 220V devices don’t need a plug, I want to control them with a tiny switch and not a big plug on the wall, here I found this- 4€ each from China…will this work? After one month Read more…
I am using Amazon-Dash buttons in my home automation project, got them from eBay for some euro. So I can switch-off all lights and heating from my bed, dim the lights in the living-room when watching TVs. And all for nearly no money. The buttons a made for 1000 clicks, so I thought I would be save. But I didnt realize the “power of Amazon” and under-estimated the SW and HW that is build into Read more…
After a long time the MCW was standing outside in the cruel world – now I found its time for a real home – lets build it a home with 3D Printing. I have used Tinkercad before, for my calendar (check out this picture) Now, the MCW Watch-Case is more complicated, because – when I build the watch and the PCB – I did not think about the case. Hence -the case had to be Read more…
We are all using Mobile Apps we download from Google Play – and use them every day. But -do we ever think about the developers? I do – especially since I developed a Mobile App on my own 🙂 What did I build? I love my little document management system “DocBox” (read more here: DocBox) – that I wrote some time ago in RubyOnRails and that is running on a Raspberry Pi (BigPi Read more…