Recent Posts
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Giving My Bird Photos a Life Outside My Phone
I like birds. I enjoy photographing birds even more. There’s a challenge involved to understand how a species might move, where it’s most visible, and what behaviors it may display. The resulting photos help me remember all of the fascinating spec...
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Building a Vent Booster & Other Cool Ideas for My Bedroom
Our bedroom is at the end of an HVAC trunk. It gets uncomfortably warm. Not enough to keep us awake, but warmer than we would prefer. The airflow from the supply register in this room isn’t spectacular. There isn’t a blockage; it’s just a suboptim...
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My BirdNET-Go Remote Mic Relay Setup
I use BirdNET-Go to detect bird calls around my house by collecting the audio from my security cameras. I wrote about that setup last year. There have been a few examples where I’ve wanted to detect birds (like owls late at night) that are improve...
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Uploading Custom Sounds to My Ozlo Sleepbuds 2
My noise-blocking journey started in 2019 when I was trying to mask the sound of HVAC ducting heating up and popping in the ceiling throughout the night. I picked up a noise machine and hacked ESPHome controls into it. But it wasn’t enough to drow...
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Silencing the Second Hand of a Second-Hand Bird Clock
On Father’s Day this past year, my wife thrifted and gifted me a vintage Audubon bird clock. At the top of each hour, the clock plays the bird call from one of the twelve birds on the face of the clock. There’s a nifty photoresistor (light sensor)...