2020-09-02

September 3, 2020•158 words

So the IR LEDs that we use to illuminate our daughter's room started to fail recently, enough that we noticed a significant decrease in visibility on the baby monitor. When I inspected the IR LEDs, only 1/3 were working. I found some replacement LED boards on AliExpress, and they arrived yesterday. But the replacements boards were smaller then the exisiting one.

I thought I screwed myself over since I did not check the dimensions before placing the order, but then I noticed something. The LED board was mounted on these long and narrow brass stand-offs, which were screwed into the plastic case. There was a second set of holes inside the case, and they aligned perfectly for the new LED board.

Screwing in the brass stand-offs into those holes took much longer then I expected, but eventually I got them in and mounted the new IR LED board. Now our daughter's room is well illuminated in the infrared.

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2020-08-25

August 26, 2020•147 words

We went to the Rockwood Conservation Area, and my daugther had a great time playing in the sand and the lake. Once she realized that the lake was like a giant bath, she wanted to go into the water and splash constantly. I swam across the lake and back, so I am very tired. All in all it was a good day. Before I went to bed, I tried working with these 8x8 pixel displays I purchased a few years ago. The last time I used them they would only produce random garbage, and when I started using them aga...

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2020-11-16

November 16, 2020•168 words

I just finished writing the code for an idea I had about a year ago, but until now I was not sure how to implement it. The code is just a POC at the moment, though I am not sure if this idea has any real value. That said, I did privately share the code with a knowledgeable and trustworthy friend. Perhaps between the two of us, we can determine a use case. Though I have tentatively set a date -- one or two years hence -- upon which I will release the code as open source, if we cannot find a viab...

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