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Build an Automatic Clothes Dryer

Posted on 2018-02-03 |

Have you ever been bothered that after a perfect bath you have to stand in the cold winter wind more than one minute to put your underwear onto the clothes dryer, just because the old crank doesn’t work fluently? I have, it’s really painful for a person like me that doesn’t like cold weather in the winter. What I need is an automatic dryer that I can control remotely in the room. I built one, with less money but flexible functionalities.

Let’s see what features it has:

  • Motor driven
  • Mechanical position limitation
  • Linear positioning with optical encoder
  • Linear height control with analog rotator
  • RF control
  • MQTT control
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Work around for macOS Mail.app eating high CPU

Posted on 2017-03-09 |

The work around is based on a software named monit. Let’s see what monit do.

Monit is a small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.

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DIY an iRobot Roomba Compatible Virtual Wall

Posted on 2016-11-25 |

I need more virtual walls for my iRobot Roomba 650, and I find that it’s not too complicated to make that. So I did some electronic monitoring and software tinkering, then I successfully made several ones - working good.

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SyncY in Synology NAS | 在群晖中使用SyncY同步百度云

Posted on 2016-11-25 |

1 安装Docker套件

套件中心安装,略。

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Use Slack App to Issue Thunder Remote Download Task

Posted on 2016-11-25 |

This article involves a product within China - Thunder Remote Download. So will be in Chinese.

使用Slack下达迅雷远程下载指令

简介

这是一个用slack聊天界面下达迅雷远程下载指令的程序。

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Arm the Xiaomi R1D router into a NAS,Remote Downloader,BaiduCloud Syncer

Posted on 2016-01-04 |

Xiaomi R1D router is a high performance Broadcom BCM4709 based router with builtin 1TB SATA HDD storage. The hardware of it is really royal except the software. After a painful struggle on the stock firmware of R1D, I decide to give up the kitchen sicker stock firmware.

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Pitch: enable Pebble Time geo ablility getting rid of a phone

Posted on 2015-08-17 |

Pebble is the most popular smart watch with a strong ability in battery life and expanding its functionality. To gain good battery life, it was designed to have no onboard/native GPS device. People must have their phone carried along to enable it using geo information. But what if people just dont wanna carry the heavy phone when they run? Or what if have no pocket to put the phone in when they do cycling?

Now Pebble Time brings us a new possibility to super extend its functionality - the smartstrap interface.

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Automatic sun shade for home

Posted on 2015-08-14 |

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