I asked it for some OfficeScript to copy the current tab in excel rename it with this week’s date and set a few cells to the current date too. It gave me a 3 page script for the TV show The Office.

The cost will come down further with scale. The great thing about that is that dead lithium batteries will have value, so people will be much less inclined to throw them in the trash or dump them elsewhere

Why are they so light? Do they way less than high rated 18650 cells would be for the rated capacity? If so they are probably inflating the rating. As is shockingly common for no name powerbanks. There are very minimal usb boards you can load 18650s into, or attach quad copter cells to, 3d print your own minimal case that suits your needs with the highest capacity and quality cells you can afford.

I prefer the time weed made it into them https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/29/haribo-recalls-sweets-in-the-netherlands-after-traces-of-cannabis-found

Small house, I use zigbee directly with the zbt1 and it’s great

I know some people really love home assistant, but not thaaaat much!

Geez, you’ve eaten so many chemicals, that’s all you are made up of now

Yeah the 8266 is cheaper but very limited in ram and only does 2.4ghz WiFi

Pity I’m terrible at using it. I’m going to have to look up some tutorials. I ended up chomping off the pcb around the headers

It’s also nice to use up some of the older boards in my stash. Living in New Zealand I tend to keep a decent supply of parts as they are always time consuming to get. I’ve got a few too many 8266’s left still!

Yeah that was my original plan, I’ve got a handful of the tiny seed ones. But the Esphome easy setup for the Bluetooth repeater doesn’t support the c3 or anything newer. https://esphome.io/projects/ turns out the length of the esp32 I had matches perfectly the length of the wemo board I ripped out too, so fitted just fine.

What should we call our service so people are clear it’s free of American influence… Hmmm ‘America On Line’

When a daddy senior dev op and a mummy senior dev op love each other very much…

But it’s the opposite in NZ and Aus, we pay more when converted back to USD while the spending power is much less.

I have so many of the AthomTech ones. Cheap, small, come with Esphome or tasmoda pre installed, power monitoring, relay or non relay versions, and no failure so far.

Get any RTSP camera, install Frigate and give it a lowish end graphics card or a Google Coral USB tpu for processing.

Bingo, totally local object detection without subscriptions.

They are trying to bring Thorn back for some reason https://youtu.be/wJxKyh9e5_A