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.
I wanted to monitor the power usage of our water heater. However, because it draws 3000W, there weren't a ton of options for what smart plug to use that supported both the needed wattage, zigbee and power monitoring. I ended up buying an ELKO SmartPlug 16A Zigbee plug. Since there…
When I first started to develop WordPress sites, I came across an issue. I had never used WordPress like my customers did. Developers and users usually don't see things the same way. Besides, most of them had their experiences from one of the default themes. I quickly understood that I…
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…
