When we moved into our house, we had a MyQ-enabled garage door, which seemed cool at first. Over the past year I've been migrating all our smart home stuff to be able to be locally controlled where possible with some cloud integrations via Home Assistant. Unfortunately, MyQ was removed from Home Assistant a few months ago as the APIs are becoming hostile to 3rd party integrations. Now, I will integrate this garage door via this small piece of hardware. Another benefit is that it enables HomeKit to see it, so I can incorporate it with carplay.

ratgdo gives you local MQTT & dry contact control plus status feedback for your residential Chamberlain/LiftMaster/Merlin garage door opener including Security+ 2.0 openers. (Security+ 2.0 uses an obfuscated serial signal to control the door opener's open/close and light functions, which makes it impossible to use Shelly One, Go Control, Insteon I/O linc or any other dry contact relay device to control the door).When we moved into our house, we had a MyQ-enabled garage door, which seemed cool at first.

It's another really cool Raspberry Pi project.  There's a bunch of stuff I want to do with the Amiga and raspberry pi.

For all Amiga versions that produce a 12-bit color video signal, this signal can be convert to pixel-perfect HDMI using the RGBtoHDMI system. There are now quite some different ways available to wire this all together.

Never underestimate what you can do in excel.

A hobbyist has created a 16-bit CPU that was built and runs inside Excel at a 3Hz clock rate and has 128KB of RAM, a 16-color 128x128 pixel display, and a custom assembly language that all runs in the popular spreadsheet. In fact, you can even try out the CPU with files the creator has made available via Github. 

I've long wanted a mowing robot, but have been pretty disappointed with what is available.  This looks like a promising project.

Maker Clemens Elflein devised OpenMower after being let down by the current generation of robotic lawnmowers. The only models he could find simply drive themselves in a straight line until they hit a perimeter wire buried in the ground, at which point they turn around a bit and then set off in another straight line. OpenMower is able to localise itself using very precise real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning, meaning it can mow a patch of grass much more efficiently.

I'm definitely planning to build one of these!

This Raspberry Pi digital audio workstation (DAW), created by maker and musician Stone Preston, takes the Raspberry Pi 4-powered synth idea to a whole new level. The project, known as LMN 3, is entirely open-source and packed with tons of cool features to make custom jams just the way you want them—with plenty of input options and tons of flexibility when it comes to sound wave manipulation.

I'm very pro monitoring and pre-emptive alerting, but these alerts have to be relevant and the monitoring has to be of the correct thicorrectngs.

The expectation with monitoring is that when you’re paged, the issue is urgent, real and requires your direct investigation and intervention. But the gap between that expectation and reality is bigger than the Grand Canyon: 59% of surveyed cloud native developers reported that only half of the alerts they receive are helpful or usable.

These days These days, I'm more interested in the Razzies than I am in the Oscars.

“After strikes, lingerings of a worldwide plague and a general sense of universal agoraphobia, the decline of the cinematic experience goes without saying,” said the organizers. “Thankfully, a doll pic and a bomb movie jump-started the Industry, which still left behind a trail of Pooh for the Razzies to pick up!”