Level 2. Test chambers.
Test chambers
Every chamber is a project that actually runs. Fifteen chambers are cleared, one is still under construction. Please ignore the water stains.
Overview
Time from the sky
A Raspberry Pi listens to GPS, Galileo and BeiDou satellites and hands out the most precise time in the house. With an antenna heater in winter.
ACTIVE 02/ 16A chat of our own
Our own Matrix server. WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, iMessage and even radios end up in one app: Element X.
ACTIVE 03/ 16Radio without a network
Meshtastic: small radios that pass messages along, no internet at all. A home-made bridge brings them into the chat.
ACTIVE 04/ 16The outer door in Vienna
If the fibre fails, Starlink takes over, and nobody can get in from outside any more. Except through a tunnel to Vienna.
ACTIVE 05/ 16The door that knows you
Open the front door with Face ID and a passkey. No key, no password, no note under the mat.
ACTIVE 06/ 16The network has eyes
Separate networks for servers, devices, cameras and guests. The camera network has no internet: what the cameras see stays in the house.
ACTIVE 07/ 16The mirror that thinks along
Behind the glass: calendar, weather and the day at a glance while you brush your teeth.
ACTIVE 08/ 16The data centre
A laptop as a cluster, a NAS as the heart, two dozen services. How it all fits together, and what happens when it does not.
ACTIVE 09/ 16Ryzom – Atys
OOC events, code and servers for Ryzom, on the team since 2014. A world that has been living on for more than twenty years.
ACTIVE 10/ 16Faces from the printer
Scan a face with an iPhone, fit a Halloween mask to it in Blender, print it. Six faces, nine masks.
ACTIVE 11/ 16The reception desk
A small PHP program stands in front of the whole home website and asks everyone: public or login? The code is open.
ACTIVE 12/ 16The key that does not exist
Passkeys instead of passwords: what a passkey actually is, why it cannot be phished, and how Pocket ID uses it to unlock fourteen services.
NEW ACTIVE 13/ 16Photo album and filing cabinet
Every phone photo, every scanned letter, the family’s calendars and contacts. Like Google Photos and Google Drive, only in our own basement.
NEW ACTIVE 14/ 16The watchdog
Who notices when something fails? Monitoring around the clock, backup power, a report every Friday. And why backups fail quietly.
NEW ACTIVE 15/ 16The internet without adverts
Two ad blockers for the whole house and a search engine of our own that tells nobody anything. On every device, without installing a thing.
NEW UNDER CONSTRUCTION 16/ 16Where is the cat?
Cameras and a self-trained model work out which of the six animals is where. The model is done, the chamber is still being built.