Last night a friend of mine gave me the idea of creating a time-lapse video of New York using the images by the NY-Times webcam. The video shows New York between 15:30 and 08:30 (local time) last night as Sandy hit.
I used a simple script to download one image per minute – combining a cron-job with a few lines of PHP, and used these to create a 60fps 30fps time-lapse video of the approximately 1050 images gathered so far.
Smart home technology should always enhance your home and never complicate it. That's why I believe in having wall switches for essential functions, even if they're also controlled by motion sensors or other means. One of the newer option in this segment is the Tap Dial, and I'm excited to…
Electric power companies, in general, are pretty much the same. Tibber however, is unlike any electricity company I had seen before. They try to utilise the data we get from smart devices, which they also sell, to save electricity, money and the environment, as well as improving comfort. It’s a…
At the end of 2025 we bought a Dreame robot vacuum, the Dream L50 Ultra. The main reason was that it should handle the door thresholds our Roborock Q Revo struggled with. The plan was to move the Q Revo downstairs to replace our now-ancient Roborock S5 Max. You might…
