About a month ago
- If you’ve spent any time optimizing a home solar and battery setup, you quickly realize that the hardware is only half the battle. The real challenge is managing it intelligently. To make smart decisions about when to charge your batteries from the grid on cheap night rates,...
3 months ago
- Blog About Moonbound Shop This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. April 8, 2026 Now that we share the internet with tireless, capable synthetic hackers, I find myself wondering if the project to rapidly...
5 months ago
- If I can make it smaller, I should. If I can make it dumber, I should. Smaller, dumber things have more applications, go more places, and require less maintenance....
6 months ago
- Blog About Moonbound Shop This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. January 17, 2026 Fairies and squirrels in a forest, ca. 1824–1883, Richard Doyle Sprites is an interesting new platform offering little...
10 months ago
- Stick microphone out window, catch chorps, feel joy....
- After setting up dozens of Internet of Things (IoT) smart home devices, I started to wonder: how hard could it be to build one from scratch? I needed a project to learn on, so I decided to create something fun: a device that alerts my neighbors when my kids go swimming,...
over 2 years ago
- The Raspberry Pico is suddenly becoming my preferred chip for embedded development. It is well made, durable hardware, with a ton of features that appear designed with smartness and passion (the state machines driving the GPIOs are a killer feature!). Its main weakness, the lack...
about 3 years ago
- A few years ago I got way into birds. I wouldn’t dare call myself a die-hard birder (yet), but it’s been a lot of fun to learn about the birds that show up in my back yard. I backed Bird Buddy‘s Kickstarter campaign as soon as I learned that a smart bird feeder was in the works....
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