Many things in life affect our path and interests. I entered college as an Electrical Engineering major mainly due to the influence of my dad’s career as an Electrician. While not the same, there was some connection with just the concepts of electricity and circuits. My brother, Jerry, landed a little closer as a journeyman…
A couple years ago I told you about my Smart Home journey, Is my home really Smart?. Since then, I have continued to tinker with the technology. And to some that seems odd that an IT guy would come home and spend his spare time fiddling with computers. That discussion could be a whole other…
I’ve talked in the past about Alexa and Ecobee and a little bit about integration with Raspberry Pi but I haven’t told you about my Smart Home journey. Well today is the day I start! Let me begin by saying I’m very frugal, which is to say cheap, when it comes to my home computers….
Today I finally installed my ecobee Smart Thermostat with Voice Control. Along with it I added 3 Smart Sensors in different rooms of my house. I’ve had a WiFi thermostat that had some ‘smarts’ before but the ecobee is another class of device. There are a number of smart thermostats on the market. The one…
Over the last couple years I’ve been tinkering with voice assistants. In reality, it goes back about 10 years before Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri existed in the market. I developed applications with voice interaction in warehouses with mobile scanners. I guess I just got hooked. So fast forward to today and my home has…
I came close to buying a “project bike” last night. And after some thought after returning home I decided I would go back and get it today. The price was right and it was in decent shape. I’ve wanted a motorcycle for several years but never made a move. My brain rolled over it all…