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Hello World
This blog was waiting a long time to get started. It was clear to me, that when I want to write a blog one day, I don’t want to struggle with web services etc. Now this jekyll static page generator draw my attention and voila, after nearly two years the blog is now online.
Now what can you expect to read here?
I am a professional embedded software developer and an amateur level electronic engineer. There are a lot of topics that I want to face in blog posts. I am also kind of new to embedded linux and hope to get more experience and knowledge over the time. Writing about it might also help me structure it and may also help you getting more into the embedded linux world.
In my basement is a lot of space for a woodworking shop, but currently, there is only a huge mess beside some more or less helpful tools. The next task is to build a general purpose workbench and after that a proper woodworking workbench that is also suitable for hand woodwork.
As I already built a kitchen myself, the kitchen for the house is already in the making. The cabinets are built three years ago and are still in a very raw state. Two cabinets, who will form a kitchen island, already have drawers but there is still a lot to do.
Also an annoying issue is the heating system. We have a heat pump which is only in manual operation mode since two years. When the temperature has to be adjusted, I need to go down to the heating in the basement and make the changes there. I already added a eBUS interface that uses (ebusd)[https://github.com/john30/ebusd], but it can only read out some values. Maybe a control that is hooked in between the control panel and the heating system is easier to realize.
Another project with a bit more fun is a music box for my son that uses RFID cards to select a file to be played from SD card or network, similar to the (Tonuino)[https://www.voss.earth/tonuino/] but with some other features. It will be based on a semi powerful ESP32 WROVER and the (Squeezelite)[https://github.com/sle118/squeezelite-esp32] suite.
When the weather gets warmer I will be in the garden and work on converting some parts from a green desert (meadow) to a permaculture food forest and a not so much permaculture veggie garden. As I totally like collecting things I already started collecting different kinds and varieties of berries which I want to document where it is in the garden and how it is developing. Maybe the initial start of an open source garden software can be made.
Finally, I am also a passionate beer brewer, currently brewing only a few times a year. Software wise we are still on beersmith3 which is just too expensive for two or three brewing sessions a year. I also want something that can use a git repository to store the recipes. So I think of extending the (brewtarget)[http://www.brewtarget.org/] software. I find using git repositories as data storage in combination with human readable file formats are just superior in terms of availability, sharing data, version control and easy to setup.