DIY hobbyist in Central Florida. Free time goes to hardware that makes my house do what I want, food I want to eat again, and a Sony a6500.
nickcupo.com has the writeups, the photos, and the recipes.
Everything here has a writeup on nickcupo.com/projects.
Photography
| photo-pipeline | Card to finished photos on a laptop: every face judged at full resolution, a DxO preset per setup, a Mac app that walks a shoot from the card to the export. Early work in progress. Writeup |
Around the house
| esphome-gate-controller | ESP32 gate opener on Home Assistant. Optocouplers across the motor leads sense direction; automations keep the reported state honest. Writeup |
| sauna-controller | ESP32 thermostat that stages three banks of heat lamp bulbs with wear leveling and minimum on/off times. PlatformIO and ESPHome versions. Writeup |
| esphome-salt-level-monitor | ESP32 and HC-SR04 in the brine tank, low-salt alerts. Writeup |
| smartthings_oven_control | Home Assistant integration for Samsung SmartThings ovens. Maintained fork; fixes the token bug that broke it every 24 hours. Writeup |
| 5K iMac turned monitor | Dead logic board, good panel. A DisplayPort board makes it a 27-inch 5K display. Writeup |
Software and client work
| bingo | Meeting bingo on Cloudflare's free plan: one password, a card each, live progress, winners verified by two other people. Writeup |
| A&J Gates & Fences | A contractor's site on a Cloudflare Worker: React, a quote form emailed through Cloudflare with a plain fallback. Writeup |
| A&J Cleaning & Removal | The sister business's site, same stack, sharing the quote endpoint. Writeup |
