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February 18, 2025Debugging Noisy I2C Buses on Arduino
February 6, 2025Low-Power Sleep Patterns for Arduino Field Nodes
February 3, 2025Building a Modbus Greenhouse Controller with Arduino
January 26, 2025Reliable SD Card Data Logging on Arduino
January 20, 2025Tuning PID Motor Control on Arduino Without Guesswork
January 12, 2025Versioned EEPROM Settings on Arduino
January 8, 2025Raspberry Pi Kiosk Mode for Reliable Signage
December 30, 2024Running an MQTT Edge Broker on Raspberry Pi
December 19, 2024A Raspberry Pi Camera Timelapse Pipeline
December 15, 2024Secure Remote Access to Raspberry Pi with WireGuard
December 11, 2024Systemd Service Patterns for Raspberry Pi Projects
November 28, 2024Raspberry Pi I2C Diagnostics in Mixed Sensor Setups
November 26, 2024Arduino Sensor Node Architecture That Survives Real Deployments
November 14, 2024Raspberry Pi Homelab Observability Stack from Zero
November 12, 2024Rust Tokio Gateway Architecture for Device Fleets
November 3, 2024Building Fast Serial CLI Tools in Rust
October 30, 2024Designing a Fail-Safe Pump Controller with Arduino
October 18, 2024Raspberry Pi Backup and Disaster Recovery That Actually Works
October 15, 2024Rust no_std Patterns for Embedded Systems
October 3, 2024Embedded State Machines in Rust
September 30, 2024A Lightweight IoT API in Rust with Axum
September 23, 2024Error Handling Patterns in Rust: anyhow + thiserror
September 18, 2024Rust Cross-Compilation for ARM Targets
September 9, 2024Testing Hardware Abstractions in Rust
August 31, 2024Arduino Sensor Calibration and Filtering Playbook
August 22, 2024Raspberry Pi Edge AI Camera Pipeline: Practical Design
August 20, 2024Special Project: RiverSentinel Water Quality Mesh
August 9, 2024Special Project: Garage Microgrid Orchestrator
August 1, 2024Rust Testing Pyramid for Hardware-Connected Projects
July 30, 2024Special Project: CNCSense Retrofitted Predictive Maintenance
July 19, 2024ESP32 Wi-Fi Recovery Patterns for Unstable Networks
July 17, 2024Special Project: BatGuard Urban Biodiversity Edge AI
July 10, 2024Special Project: AquaForge Aquaponics Digital Twin
July 2, 2024Home Assistant + MQTT Device Modeling Done Right
June 23, 2024Special Project: Frostwatch Vineyard Frost Defense Network
June 19, 2024LoRa Sensor Node Power Budgeting in Practice
June 9, 2024KiCad PCB Review Checklist Before Sending to Fabrication
June 2, 2024Embedded Power Supply Design Basics for Mixed Sensor Systems
May 25, 2024Outdoor Sensor Enclosure Design Beyond 'It Fits in a Box'
May 17, 2024Linux Edge Device Hardening Checklist
May 11, 2024MQTT Topic Design and Governance for Growing Projects
May 4, 2024IoT Telemetry Schema Versioning Strategies
May 1, 2024OTA Update Strategy for Microcontrollers Without Bricking Devices
April 19, 2024Raspberry Pi Docker Compose Patterns for Stable Homelabs
April 17, 2024Rust Telemetry Pipelines: Protobuf vs JSON Tradeoffs
April 10, 2024Debian 12 Hardening Retrospective: What I Changed on a Public VPS
April 3, 2024Apache2 Reverse Proxy for Legacy Apps: A Migration Retrospective
March 27, 2024Nginx Edge Caching and Zero-Downtime Deployments: What Actually Worked
March 19, 2024Traefik Routing at Scale in a Homelab: What Broke and What Held
March 11, 2024Kubernetes in a Homelab: Lessons from My k3s Cluster
February 27, 2024Ansible Infra-as-Code Retrospective: How I Stopped Snowflake Servers
February 18, 2024Proxmox Homelab Cluster Retrospective: Stability Before Complexity
February 9, 2024CI/CD Retrospective: GitHub Actions with a Self-Hosted Runner
January 31, 2024Observability Stack Retrospective: Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki in Practice
January 22, 2024Backup and Disaster Recovery Retrospective: The Drills That Changed Everything
January 17, 2024PostgreSQL Performance Tuning Retrospective: From Slow Queries to Stable Latency
January 10, 2024WireGuard Site-to-Site Retrospective: Secure Connectivity Without the Usual Pain
January 3, 2024Terraform Environment Lifecycle Retrospective: What Finally Made It Predictable