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Smart Home Tech
SmartThings and other Z-Wave and Zigbee smart-home tech.
Aeotec Multisensor 6
They pack a lot into a small package, but run through batteries fast.
Related Tech
Various motion detecting (night) lights
Make your house light up wherever you go (just like Blade Runner!) without expensive, clumsy smart-home tech.
Badger Recordall Model 35 Water Meter
Not smart home tech, but supporting data about residential water meters. Net finding: They work great!
Home Energy Topics
Efergy Home Energy Monitoring
I've monitored all my house's circuit breakers with Efergy sensors since January 2016. Efergy is simultaneously great and problematic.
Using USB for battery power
Wouldn't it be great to wave a magic wand and not need batteries? You can do it pretty easily with any old USB adapter plus a few diodes that cost less than a dollar.
Simple Electricity Outlet Energy Monitoring Gear
Floureon, Ensupra, P3 Eletronics... which is best?
A few tips on the Georgia Power Electricity company
They're part of SouthernCompany.com; concepts may apply to anyone outside Georgia who is covered by them.
Georgia Natural Gas Pricing
For those served by the Atlanta Gas & Light area.
Personal Finance
PC Games Chronicle
My hella PC Games Chronicle page
Consumer Product Reviews and Data
A selection of my product reviews and observations. They typically have far more technical details than others', or point out the non-obvious. I often post reviews elsewhere, but put my better ones here because they often get buried on other sites. And I can update them at will here.
Amazon Prime No-Rush Credits
The U.S. Postal Service's Informed Delivery
Cuisinart Programmable 14-Cup CBC-6400PC Coffeemaker
Oral-B Pro Care 5000 Toothbrush
Fridge Filter Flow Rate
A simple way to measure how clogged your frig filter may be, and whether it needs replacement.
Spirituality and Musings
For now,
Clinical Immortality
It is coming, no stopping it. I estimate it will be here in the 2050s.
A Poem for Mom and Dad
after the battle of Rabaul ... who remembers who?
except for dying,
everything's great
A little poem called All
Miscellaneous
Overclocking PCs
I oc'd a Haswell from 3.4 to 4.4 Ghz, a 30% speed increase. I also cut through some unclear thinking on Overclock.net to write a sensible man's guide to overclocking.
3D Printing
Here's a YouTube of 3D printing. Designed in Tinkercad; printed via Shapeways.com for $4.
Wikipedia work
I've mostly done small edits on Wikipedia, but a few are notable.
The Power Of Dilution
A little note on trying to clean anything at all, where rinsing is involved. Rinsing your caulking rag as an example.
Wiki reference notes
Notes to myself about how to work certain MediaWiki things. If it helps someone else, how groovy is that.
Contact me to ask a question or contribute. I'm happy to add your insights to my wiki pages.
Note: As for most MediaWiki sites, you can use the View History tab up top to see when any page was last edited, and what the edits were.