SwizzleStick

Well it’s exactly what I asked for, can’t argue 😂

We settled on Puck for the name. It rhymes with what’s said when weird noises come from its direction…

Why not. I would love to see your detached robotic ass.

I printed special little stilts to raise one of our tables the 10mm extra it needed to be able to go under without getting wedged. It still tries fornicating with the cat tree - a different problem to solve.

Never lost it’s ass though, one to look out for there.

It would definitely be a size thing for adding Ethernet (PoE or otherwise) to small boards like these. The ones I am using are already bigger than they ought to be - the bottom half is just a glorified serial interface and power input for USB. The esp plugs into this through pin/header. If I were less lazy, they could be about half the thickness in a final product. No PoE I suppose also keeps them cheap, which is always good for me. The casings were my first ‘proper’ design and entry into resin printing.

The Tapo kit I have found to be a good balance of price, features and quality. I have a Tapo C310 mounted outdoors at another building, which has done great in all weathers. Initial setup does require the app/service last time I checked, but it can be made to serve RTSP locally after that. Very good for the ~£30 price point.

Eggs, baskets, and lessons being taught about how it’s not a good idea to heavily skew their ratio.

Ok so the combination is:

• This camera board
• This external antenna
• This project
• A shell I designed myself in SketchUp (skp download). Note that’s not the final version, as I lost some design files.

And the finished item:

All assembled, they will give a decent enough feed to frigate for the basics. Just don’t expect miracles in the resolution or framerate departments. 3fps does fine for my use case of tracking critters.

Gladly. I’ll collate a few bits later - time for work.

New to me & bookmarked. I am sure I have some crap lying around that this would work with.

Thank you!

For hardware, anything that can provide a local rtsp stream is a good place to start. I run cheap and cheerful mix of tapo, unbranded and homebrew esp32 cams. Offload the motion/object detection and alerts to something that can pull in the feeds, and isolate the cams to local network only.

WiFi usually ok, but at least hardwire the power to save future grief.

Using frigate to manage mine, which is running under Homeassistant - another project worth looking up.

A few images, featuring Freddie the visitor:

Is your phone a zweihänder or something? I think the last time I reliably used a phone with both hands was back in the days of tapping out texts on a keypad in T9. Needed both thumbs for decent wpm.

Or I’m misreading and it’d get in the way of something else?

Right seems right for me, in both pocket and operation. Whatever works though, at the end of the day :)

So many doing front left for phone, that’s just weird to me unless you’re left handed.

Front Right: Phone

Back Left: Flattened & folded plastic shopping bag(s)

Back Right: Wallet

Belt Hooks: Keys

Front left is the ‘all the other shit’ pocket. Currently this contains:

• 6 flash drives totalling around 500GB
• Lighter
• £4.25 in loose change
• Flipper 0
• Trolley token
• Multitool with knife, needle, pen, tweezers, ruler, magnet, cross driver
• 3 dog shit bags (empty)

Why pick shit out of your cereal, when you can just get the other brand that doesn’t have shit in it?

At least they’ve zapped the acceptable ads out of it :)

Ironfox is my current pref for mobile, backed by uBO & a VPN to a box running pfsense.

ABP hasn’t been relevant for years, because they started on “acceptable ads” back in 2011.

Anyone with sense has long since moved on.

Both the mice I use are Logitech.

Marathon M705 in work. Bought in 2017 and still trucks away in my 9-5. Fantastic scroll and enough buttons for convenience. Batteries last seemingly forever.

M510 at home. Bought in 2022 and no troubles. Has done me well in the same non-competitive gaming role, but you might appreciate a few more buttons.

Both use the unifying protocol. Both are pretty cheap too.

There’s a world of difference between day 1 and the current build as well. Definitely take another look if you haven’t recently. Devs finally waking up haha.

Favourite part so far has been the lighting system & ragdolls. If you whip a car fast enough in reverse and hit a sweet spot on the swing around, you can send Z flying like baseballs.

RAID1 with 8 drives is definitely in the funsies department

B42 multiplayer can’t come quick enough…

Have you tried unstable in SP yet?

It’s not, and it’s the bloody daily heil too.

Use a different service, or encrypt your data before upload & share password separately. For anything remotely private, should be doing that already.

For chaotic good, upload LLM poison to fuck with the training data.