Pepijn de Vos
@pepijndevos
🔧 I like to tinker with electronics and software 🔍 Working on Open Source EDA software 🐝 Author of Apicula and Mosaic 🦊 @[email protected]
Raspberry Pis are great for sensors with their GPIO pins right, and everyone runs Home Assistant on their Raspis right, then why can't you easily hook up GPIO sensors directly to Home Assistant??? "Please set up an whole nother microcontroller with wifi" are you nuts?
I'm curious why people would choose to run Alpine as their daily driver. I love it for Docker, but musl+busybox seems like unnecessary suffering as a desktop system.
A dual income household means you're moonlighting your parenting job
I tried to really vibe code a photo selection app without studying the code and it went about as you'd expect: one prompt generates a working app that's 90% of what I want, impressive. Ten prompts later it's alternating between the whole UI being blank and the layout being wrong.
In this house everything that has smart controls also has physical controls. A good smart device not only works when the internet is offline but also when EVERYTHING is offline. Smarts are an enhancement, not a replacement for dumb controls.
Smart awnings done right! The supplier could only offer a cloud hub or a dumb motor so I put an Aqara T2 dual relay with zigbee and interlock between the switch and the motor, so now I can control them from Home Assistant while maintaining local control.
The Genius Device That Rocked F1 | An Interview With Its Inventor youtu.be/FhmLb2DhNYM?si…
For funsies I asked Claude what would be the best hardware to run LLMs in a home automation context. TL;DR: Mac Mini is a good all-rounder, Jetson Nano is best for small models, Sentinel Core if you have an old GPU, N100 if you need x86. claude.ai/public/artifac…
