WAN Failover to 4G with pfSense
2020-08-07
InfrastructureI’m always trying to improve my home infrastructure and make it more robust. In February and March I made improvements around monitoring and automatically reacting to power events.
Static Site with S3 and CloudFront
2020-08-02
Infrastructure Cloud Open sourceWhen I first replatformed this site to being a Jekyll static blog served from S3 I just used simple S3 static site serving as opposed to front-ending the S3 bucket...
3D Printed Fridge Magnet
2020-05-24
3dprinting
Our niece Nong Peak stayed over this weekend and this morning we made a cute cat fridge magnet which turned out pretty nicely:
Rode M5 Microphone X-Y Stereo Rig
2020-05-09
3dprinting
Field recording
This was a project to design and print a simple and light-weight rig for mounting my stereo matched pair of Rode M5 condenser microphones in X-Y co-incident arrangement for stereo...
USB Hub Under-Desk Mount
2020-04-18
3dprinting
Here’s a quick project I just did to mount an old but good quality powered Belkin 7-port USB hub that I had laying around to the underside of my desk....
APC UPS SMS Notifications with Amazon SNS
2020-03-25
Infrastructure
Automation
Cloud
Aws
The automated graceful shutdown I setup for the hosts protected by my APC UPS on Sunday is working well - but I decided I want to be notified when there’s...
Autobooting my pfSense Router on Mains Power Restoration
2020-03-22
Infrastructure AutomationThe power management situation in my home lab is in pretty good shape now with solid monitoring as well as the auto-shutdown mechanism I implemented yesterday.
Automated Remote Host Shutdown with apcupsd
2020-03-21
Infrastructure AutomationMy control node which was already running apcupsd for monitoring purposes is now configured to automatically power off my NAS, backup server and KVM compute node when the remaining charge...
Moving UniFi Controller Data to a New Install
2020-03-19
Infrastructure
I was finding my control node project to be a bit sluggish on the Raspberry Pi 3B+ so I decided to rebuild it on a Raspberry Pi 4B+ but I...
UniFi AP Side-Table Mount
2020-03-15
Infrastructure
I recently replaced a small mess of WiFi AP devices and config based on my pfSense router with a UniFi Nano HD AP.