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  • Beginner’s Guide to EasyEDA Pro, JLCPCB Parts, LCSC Stock, and Why Your Part Shows Up Rotated

    When you are new to PCB design and assembly, it is surprisingly easy to get tripped up by things that seem like they should “just work.” We recently went through this with a small illuminated through-hole button in EasyEDA Pro and JLCPCB, and along the way learned a bunch of useful beginner lessons that would…

  • OrcaSlicer, Creality K1 Max, Moonraker, and Mainsail: first steps for new owners finding their feet

    The setup This test was done against a Creality K1 Max on 192.168.2.136 while the printer was actively running a job. The slicer was OrcaSlicer 2.3.2. This was not a fresh-from-box machine. It had just been bought second-hand from Facebook Marketplace, so part of the job was simply working out how the printer had already been set up,…

  • How to duty cycle HVAC zones with Home Assistant

    Here is a handy script that can help with automating your zone duty cycle, for this you will need to set up a slider card, and have your zone controller working in home assistant. You can find the 4 zone controller here or the 8 zoner here.

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  • SongWalk and the Lost Art of Sharing Music

    There was a time when finding music felt personal. You heard a song on late-night radio and waited with your finger over the record button, hoping the DJ would stop talking before the intro ended. You carried around cassettes with handwritten labels, CD wallets full of scratched burns, and a Discman that skipped the second…

  • The Perils of Solar Battery Rebates and Why Homeowners Feel Like They’re Being Taken for a Ride

    Australians love a rebate. On paper, it sounds simple: the government offers a generous discount, households get cheaper batteries, and everyone wins. In reality, rebates can create a pricing fog that makes it much harder for ordinary people to tell what something should actually cost. That is exactly why so many homeowners come away from…

  • SongWalk – Local Hosted Music Sharing Made Easy

    SongWalk – Local Hosted Music Sharing Made Easy

    SongWalk is a retro-inspired music dropbox for friends, collaborators, and families who need to share libraries without the noise of mainstream cloud storage. The new SongWalk brand keeps the same battle-tested songshare backend but wraps it in a polished AV-style skin, a fresh logo, and a single-cross-platform quick-share script that covers both local Python and Docker deployments. Why SongWalk?…

  • EasyEDA Pro test points and PCBA BOM exports: the unintuitive checkbox that finally fixed it

    If you are sending a board off for assembly and your manufacturer keeps asking why your test points are in the BOM, here is the fix that finally worked for me in EasyEDA Pro. I had a set of test points that were just bare PCB pads. No fitted part. No metal loop. Nothing to…

  • Lightweight Monitoring Endpoints for WordPress

    The Goal When monitoring a WordPress site, the endpoint should answer one simple question: It should not load the full WordPress application unless you deliberately want an application-level health check. That matters because many common WordPress URLs trigger PHP, database access, plugin loading, cron hooks, and background jobs. For a busy site, that turns a…

  • ESP32 Flashing Cheat Sheet

    Practical commands for flashing and recovering ESP32 boards in this repo on Windows. Tool Check On this machine, ESPHome is available via python -m esphome and esptool via python -m esptool. Checked locally on 2026-03-21: ESPHome 2025.12.2, esptool 5.1.0. Find The COM Port List serial ports: More detail from Windows: Quick before/after method: Repo Commands Validate config only: First USB flash: Flash zone firmware over…