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I share my experience as I implement presence detection using ESPresense's base stations and Home Assistant.

I jumped on the TrueNAS SCALE bandwagon with one of its first beta releases. As I used TrueNAS SCALE on my NAS at home, I shared my experience as an early adopter.

I rebuilt my on DIY NAS in an awesome 3D-printed case (the MK735) featuring TrueNAS SCALE, a Supermicro X11SDV-4C-TLN2 motherboard, an Intel Xeon D-2123IT CPU, 64GB ECC DDR4 RAM, a pair of Crucial MX500 1TB SSDs, and more!

Working through a couple neat open source hardware and software projects for creating your own drone racing timer.

My discovery of Tailscale inspired me to finally self-host my own cloud storage using NextCloud.

Brian finally finds an incredibly powerful--and easy--VPN to use at to access all of his devices remotely.

Using PiKVM, an ECCOO KVM switch, and Tailscale to access and control numerous computers from anywhere I have Internet access.

Building my own IP KVM with a RaspberryPi, an inexpensive USB video capture device, and the awesome project, Pi-KVM.

An economical DIY NAS featuring TrueNAS CORE, a Gigabyte B450 Aorus M motherboard, an AMD Athlon 3000G CPU, 32GB DDR4 RAM, and the Fractal NODE 804 case for $660