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DeskPi: My take on a desk mounted HomeAssistant dashboard

The more I dig into the world of HomeAssistant, the more I keep falling down a deep rabbit hole! Lately, after increasing the number of “smart” devices installed in our house, I started looking more into surface mounted dashboards, in order to control the madness! A first successful attempt was to mount a Raspberry Pi […]

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Making LEGO’s Nightmare Before Christmas Spookier with Custom Lights and 3D Printing

When I saw LEGO announcing the new Nightmare Before Christmas sets, I knew it was going to be mine! On its own it’s already a great set! It has the right mix of minifigures (with a long legged Jack!!) and captures all the iconic locations, especially with Jack & Sally being placed in front of […]

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What’s Going On With The Internet?

I consider myself an “internet native”. Being of the generation that I am, I remember when the internet first started to become a thing once we started getting dial-up at home. I remember clearly the level of excitement of being able to reach a much bigger world from my small bedroom. I also of course […]

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A Fully Mobile 3D Printing Workflow

I do love 3D printing! It’s a recent love, but nevertheless it’s becoming a big passion for me! I bought my first 3D printer almost 2 years ago, leveraging the usual Black Friday discounts and I’ve never looked back!

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My Two Cents On WWDC2024

I guess I still need to master my power of manifestation! The other day I was wishing for some improvement to iPadOS for business usage and for gaming. I guess I kind of received one of the two? From a gaming perspective, we are getting “Game Mode” and developers will receive an updated Game Porting […]

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A day in the life of an M4 iPad Pro

I guess there is a chance for this post to have a significantly short shelf life, considering it will be posted the night before WWDC24, but…here we are! Since the introduction of the M4 iPad Pros, the internet at large once again descended into forks and pikes modes upon Cupertino, reminding Apple how great of […]

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