Tech

Maker Projects

Developers: It’s Easy to Publish & Monetize Your API with RapidAPI

by Steve Murch on June 14, 2024 Comments are Disabled

RapidAPI makes it easy to monetize the application programming interfaces you’ve built.

Maker Projects

Read Propane Levels from Anywhere with Home Assistant and an ESP32

by Steve Murch on December 10, 2023 Comments are Disabled

Remotely read a liquid propane gas (LPG) tank with a cheap ESP32 board, Raspberry Pi and a little cleverness.

Coding

Working with Environment Variables (Tech Note)

by Steve Murch on January 5, 2023 0 comments

Here’s a quick cheatsheet on setting and reading environment variables across common OS’s and languages.

Maker Projects

Enchanted Rose 2.0 with Falling Petals

by Steve Murch on January 1, 2023 13 comments

Revisiting the Enchanted Rose project four years later, this time with an open-source build based on Raspberry Pi.

Maker Projects

Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Web Server with Its Own Wifi Network (Tech Note)

by Steve Murch on December 28, 2022 2 comments

The Raspberry Pi microcomputer is great for building “Internet of Things” devices. This technical post describes the steps to get your Raspberry Pi to broadcast its own local network and bridge to an Ethernet network if available. There are other guides showing how to do this on the Internet, but they are often woefully out of date, leading people down real rabbit holes.

Machine Learning

Engines of Wow, Part III: Opportunities and Pitfalls

by Steve Murch on December 3, 2022 0 comments

This is the third in a three-part series introducing revolutionary changes in AI-generated art. In Part I: AI Art Comes of Age, we traced back through some of the winding path that brought us to this point. Part II: Deep Learning and The Diffusion Revolution, 2014-present, introduced three basic methods […]