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endless pasta leftovers Monday, January 20 2020
After a work week, two days of driving around (including driving in a snowstorm), and helping to host a noodle party, it was nice to have a day with no real responsibilities. I had a mild hangover from the red wine and booze I'd had last night, so initially I just wanted to lie on the couch in the living room watching YouTube videos about the Nicholas Godejohn case.
Throughout the day, both Gretchen and I ate various leftover pasta dishes. I hadn't had any of the lasagna Gretchen had made, so it was good that I was able to eat a piece of it today before Gretchen ate it all.
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Late this afternoon I put together a minimal Raspberry-Pi-Zero-W-based surveillance robot specifically for monitoring the woodstove. It included an LM75A-based I2C temperature and a MAX30105 I2C particle detector as well as a camera. Using a copy of the Disturbatron's boot volume as a starting point for the software, it was relatively easy to put this together. With regard to hardware, I didn't even bother with a substructure to mount the four component boards on, and instead just kept everything tidy with twisty-ties. This resulted in an assemblage that I could easily hide within a void in the collar tie directly above the woodstove, with just the camera peering out over the edge. By the time I went to bed, I was able to both monitor the camera and the particle sensor remotely across the household network. I will be able to monitor this probe from anywhere on Earth using the services of Remote.it.
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Charles the Cat and his new favorite place to sleep on the piano. Sometimes he plays a little tune on his way there.
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