wwwiebe in #hive-163521 • 23 days agoSome Clowning Around with an ArduinoI was recently in a nearby Goodwill where I came upon these really neat clown paintings. I am well aware that the words "neat," "clown," and "painting" might not enter most…wwwiebe in #hive-163521 • 6 months agoExpanding Grafana with a TableIn a recent post ( I had written about putting together a small Grafana dashboard, powered by a Node Red and MySQL combination (actually, MariaDB, but the difference is…wwwiebe in #hive-163521 • 6 months agoNode Red and GrafanaNode Red is a really good, open source, flow-based data manipulation tool. It excels at connection to API's, pulling data, manipulating it, and sending it to an output. It has…wwwiebe in #hive-163521 • 6 months agoHome Internet MonitoringVery recently (today, in fact) my ISP - Verizon - had a somewhat widespread service-effecting issue which definitely effected me, my house, and our service. Internet outages…wwwiebe in #hive-163521 • 6 months agoNode-RED and GrafanaLast year - 2020 - I hosted (or tried to host) a year long photography contest that I named Photo52 . The goal was to hold a contest with a new theme every week of the year…wwwiebe in #hive-163521 • 7 months agoPython help with Google Music takeoutSometime last year Google decided to do away with their Google Music offering, replacing it instead with Youtube Music . (image courtesy of Pixabay) I'm not a…wwwiebe in #hive-114105 • 9 months agoA Tale of Three ComputersI have been using a Mac for the past 6 years. In particular, I have been using a mid-2013 Mac Air with a dual core i5 and 8 gb of ram. I love my Mac Air. My employer sent me a 2017 Macbook Pro withwwwiebe in #hive-142010 • 9 months agoThe Raspberry PiI spent some time this weekend cleaning out my office with the help of my youngest son. His form of help, of course, revolved around the serious questions in life: "Dad, what's…wwwiebe in #hive-142010 • last yearSome Lego Robotics Game FunI got inspired the other day watching the season finale of LEGO Masters. Other than seeing some truly inspiring LEGO builds, what really caught my eye was that one of the builds…
