Stuff I do, stuff I like
If you have read my blog and my postings on Facebook for a while you know that one of my hobbies is to play around with microcontrollers. I built environmental sensors for my house and also two solar powered weather stations for outside. One of my inhouse sensors is already monitoring fine dust levels and […]
Last week my garden sensors gave up – the wooden birds house I used to contain them was simply rotten so I needed a new one. For outside housing of sensors these cheap wooden birds houses are great – no plastic but wood, cheap, and easy to work with. The local home supply store only […]
You perhaps know that one of my hobbies is playing around with microcontrollers and sensors. For quite a while now I have deployed ESP8266 based sensor nodes inside and outside of my house. Currently they mainly gather temperature, moisture levels, air pressure and light levels, using BME280 and similar sensors. A while ago I discovered […]
The last week RIPE80 meeting happened. Online. It should have been in Berlin, with my company DE-CIX as the „local host“. Because of that, I was appointed to the program committee – as a local host representative. For my friends not familiar with what I do, how the Internet industry works or, what a RIPE […]
As a lot of people, I am currently working from home. That means: I start about one hour earlier in the morning I have a looong lunch break I finish at the same time as in office I do not have to commute – that saves me 90 minutes each day! So, time to spend […]
Ok, this is now the 3rd incarnation of my web server. The first one was “plain html” – just a bunch of files I edited with a text editor. The next one was based on a content management system. Since I do some photography, its primary purpose was to publish my photographs. So, after a […]
I traveled to India earlier this year. Over the next few entries I will blog what I have written down while there. Date of the entries will be the date when I originally wrote it. I really liked the country – when I am sarcastic, thats simply my style.
Well, that was an “interesting” Uber ride to the office. What do you do if you miss an exit on the motorway? In Germany you know – you simply continue to the next one. Not so in India: After our driver missed the exit by a few meters, he simply stopped (which caused a motorcycle […]
Our driver this morning took off in an “unusual” direction (after Aerocity where the hotel is located he took a right instead of a left as all other drivers). He noticed that we were looking confused and checking the map and explained it is to “avoid the traffic”. Well, it worked until a T crossing […]
We used an Uber again to get to the office. This was the third Uber we used with the “low fuel” light on and the second with the “engine warning” on. Makes me a bit nervous as a good part of our trip to the office is via a four lane (of which five lanes […]
