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Abusing free amazon prime photo storage
Amazon Prime membership includes 15GB cloud storage and unlimited photo storage. Since I already wanted to create a backup of my storage raid, I thought it would be nice to upload all my files encoded as pictures. I came up with a simple tool that converts files and folder structures into pictures, and allows you…
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Making dumb lamps smart with free amazon dash buttons
In my previous post, I showed how any dumb device can be made smart by putting a relais in series to disconnect its power source. This time I do the same to my lamp! First of all my ikea lamp on the ceiling is complete shit. You have to stand up, go to the light…
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Making dumb wireless power plug smarter with an ESP8266
This time I was adding an ESP8266 devboard and a relais to a dumb power plug, to allows us to control all sorts of loads over the network, for example for standalone lamps. Lessons learned: Don’t forget to add OTA functionality as it will be very hard to update the software on the microcontroller otherwise.…