Tinkering, mostly.
Rick Kendall
Notes, build logs and write-ups from a home full of half-finished projects. Home automation that mostly behaves, instruments that mostly stay in tune, a bike that needs more attention than it admits, the occasional thing worth cooking twice, and whatever else is currently in pieces on the bench.
Nothing here is for sale and there is no mailing list. It is a notebook that happens to be public.
Smart Home
Home Assistant automations, dashboards, sensors, and the occasional one that only works on a Tuesday.
Motorbike
Riding, maintenance, and jobs that took three times as long as planned.
Food
Occasional cooking. What worked, what did not, and the odd thing worth making again.
Recent posts
- Notes on a bench power supply rebuild
An old linear supply, a replacement regulator board, and the usual discovery that the original fault was a dry joint.
- Embedding video without slowing the page down
Paste a YouTube URL on its own line and WordPress does the rest. Here is what that looks like, and the CSS that keeps it in proportion.
- Kitchen lights that follow a timer, not a delay
A motion sensor that pulses every ten seconds will keep re-triggering a delay forever. The fix is a native for: on the off-trigger.