I built an AI to watch a bird. She left.
I built an AI to watch a Common Redstart nesting in my garden. Two weeks later she left the box and never came back. The AI didn't notice — and that was the lesson.
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Mining Bitcoin in my hallway — and the home automation that decides when to do it
A 21energy Ofen 2 sits in my hallway — heating the air and hashing Bitcoin. This is the Home Assistant logic that decides when, why, and at what tier.
Hacking the Heat: Retrofitting Adax Heaters with ESPHome and Custom PCBs
A multi-phase journey from cloud-dependent heating to fully local, custom-hardware control.