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automation

Building a home sensing network

The start of a series of articles where I'll cover building a network of sensors for my home.

    2 min read
    arduino

    Driving a 8x8 RGB LED matrix with Arduino

    Controlling 196 LEDs using 3 pins on an arduino including PWM to create hundreds of colours (well 729).

      8 min read
      arduino

      Building a keyboard with Arduino

      How I built a 8 key keyboard with an arduino, some conductive paint and a lot of patience.

        7 min read
        aws

        Building serverless SSO

        Building a solution to protect content in Cloudfront behind OpenID Connect (OIDC) compatible single-sign-on using Keycloak and Lambda@Edge. This had a few more problems to overcome than I thought!

          6 min read
          cpp

          Building a 'serverless' WebDAV server

          My experience building a serverless WebDAV server to make a quick solution for sharing files

            7 min read
            aws

            HAProxy Service Discovery and Load Balancing

            Using HAProxy for automatic service discovery of web services running on ECS clusters using AWS CloudMap Service Registry

              3 min read
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