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Commute Time by Neighborhood

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Our neighborhood is in a suburb of Houston that is just off of a major highway that many people use for commuting. It’s a convenient place to either commute North into…

DIY Reef Tank Flowrate Monitoring

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For about $10 I was able to add a sensor to my return line and monitor flowrate using ESPHome and Home Assistant. I used a cheap hall effect flow rate sensor off of Amazon.…

DIY Reef Tank pH Monitoring

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I added pH monitoring to my reef tank for about $80. I bought a pH probe and the associated PCB from Atlas Scientific and integrated it into my reef tank controller using…

Automating Reef Tank Temperature Control using ESPHome + Home Assistant

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The next step in my reef automation is adding temperature control. I started off with a cheap $30 standalone thermostat module – it works well but it’s super basic and the…

Adding WiFi Control to an LED Reef Light

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A few hobbies I’ve been getting into recently are saltwater reef aquariums and home automation. This little project was a bit of both. I bought 2x 165W LED lights off of…

Self Diagnosis of Periodic Limb Movement Disorder Using Python & OpenCV

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So for years I’ve always felt excessive daytime sleepiness and fatigue. Once I finally got a job after school I now had health insurance and money to start looking into the…

Translating Visible Light Spectrometer

The gallery below shows a translatable visible spectrometer I built in grad school. I used this to study CdSe nanoparticle synthesis in-situ at relevant conditions (up to…