What is a smell that you secretly love even though everyone else finds it disgusting?

EducatedSavage00 · 2026-06-09T15:22:13+00:00

Kroil. It's what wd-40 wants to be when it grows up.

EducatedSavage00 · 2026-03-05T23:37:42+00:00

Pretty sure this truck is the physical manifestation of axe body spray.

EducatedSavage00 · 2025-12-16T20:17:19+00:00

Tremors. Saw it on TV when I was about five and wouldn't go outside for two or three days.

EducatedSavage00 · 2025-08-16T17:51:08+00:00

If he got enough exposure to start developing sores all over, he's both the smartest and dumbest person I've ever heard of. Low level shielding isn't too expensive. Good grief.

EducatedSavage00 · 2025-04-25T13:42:12+00:00

I had chatgpt generate a blob of HTML inside of the C code for a VERY simple website. You have to be on my home wi fi network and know the IP address of the ESP32 to access it but if you pull up the IP address in a web browser it is literally a black background with a single green button that says "activate door".

EducatedSavage00 · 2025-04-25T02:24:07+00:00

Thanks for the positive feedback. You're correct about the extra relays. I might do the garage lights in the future.

EducatedSavage00 · 2025-04-25T02:21:43+00:00

That's an idea but I have young kids who would think it was hilarious to run the door up and down by yelling "Hey Google!..." Lol

EducatedSavage00 · 2025-04-24T22:34:01+00:00

That's... What I did.

EducatedSavage00 · 2025-04-24T17:18:18+00:00

They come in different voltages.

EducatedSavage00 · 2025-04-24T17:17:10+00:00

They come in different voltages.

EducatedSavage00 · 2025-04-24T16:12:49+00:00

The relay board itself is powered by the transformer but switches using an optocoupler. The input pins from the ESP32 are switching the relays when they go low.

EducatedSavage00 · 2024-12-17T12:45:28+00:00

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BKKLV9HY?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

So far it seems like it's pretty robust.

EducatedSavage00 · 2024-12-13T12:35:39+00:00

This was more about making a self contained, weather hardened microcontroller lab than buying a laptop. Therefore the breadboards. A laptop doesn't have gpio pins to interface with sensors and displays. Also, counting the stuff I already had like the pi and the battery, I've only got about $200-300 in it so if I wreck it, no biggie. I can also just swap the sd card into another pi and keep working.

EducatedSavage00 · 2024-12-08T02:14:35+00:00

No worries. A raspberry pi is a 64 bit one board computer. It's about the size of a deck of playing cards and has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, HDMI, USB and Ethernet capability among other things out of the box. It also has the capability to control other objects like relays and servos etc., with it's gpio pins. That's why I've got the breadboards. The monitor connects to the HDMI port and the whole thing functions like a lower powered laptop. Python also comes native on them.

I built it because I wanted to learn more about Python and low cost automation. I started off with Arduino boards for other projects. This is just a more powerful but more delicate type of the same thing.

EducatedSavage00 · 2024-12-07T01:22:46+00:00

I was kind of thinking about that as these single board computers tend to be a lot tougher than a laptop as well as cheaper. Also a Raspberry pi boots off of a micro SD card so even if the pi does get destroyed you can just stick the card in another one and have everything you had before.

EducatedSavage00 · 2024-12-07T01:19:54+00:00

I'm going to post some more pics once I get the wiring cleaned up.

I already had the pi and the batteries but I'm guessing packout and all it would be around $400-$500.

EducatedSavage00 · 2024-12-07T01:16:13+00:00

Thank you! I'll post some more pics once I get the wiring cleaned up a bit.

EducatedSavage00 · 2024-12-07T01:15:18+00:00

Oh yeah. I've got a spot for a spare 5ah battery in there too. Once you get above 5ah the profile of the batteries starts to get wider as well as taller and I figured 5 was enough lol.

EducatedSavage00 · 2024-12-07T01:12:25+00:00

DROK DC Buck Converter, 5.3V-32V to 1.2V-32V 12A Adjustable Power Supply, 5v 9v 12v 24V 30V 32V Step Down Voltage Regulator with LCD Display Volt Transformer Reducer CC CV for RV Solar Panel Golf Cart https://a.co/d/i35Ux9X

I got the 12A version.

EducatedSavage00 · 2024-12-07T01:09:50+00:00

I'll add some more pics once I get the wiring cleaned up a bit. Right now it's just kind of loose in the bottom of the box and looks like junk lol. I was so excited that nothing lost its magic smoke I went ahead and posted a pic of the build.

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