StatusPanel
A LAN-only health dashboard for my web server. A local poller pulls telemetry over a locked-down SSH key and pushes alerts to tablet displays.
Savi Technologies
Hobby projects, experiments and notes.
Personal projects by Chris Savina - home automation, cameras, microcontrollers, apps and whatever else is on the bench. Source code lives on GitHub.
Projects
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Raspberry Pi Oil Meter Reader
A Raspberry Pi NoIR camera reads the analog gauge on a heating-oil tank with OpenCV and reports the level to openHAB.
Remote Fireworks Launcher
Wireless ignition system for backyard fireworks - nichrome igniters, a relay control box and a tablet app to fire each cue.
Twitter Water Sensor
A wireless XBee water-leak sensor that tweets an alert when it gets wet.
IP Camera Tools
Scripts for home webcams - FTP image capture, thumbnail archives, scrollback viewers, a LAN image proxy and time-lapse video with ffmpeg.
Recent articles
Archive →- Raspberry Pi Oil Meter ReaderThis project uses a Raspberry Pi with a NOIR camera and IR lighting to take a picture of an oil tank analog meter and convert to a percentage using…
- Fireworks Electric Fusesnichrome wire around a fuse Electric igniters are made by wrapping a segment of nichrome wire around a standard fuse segment. To make a fuse, you'll…
- Fireworks Control BoxThis control box receives commands wirelessly via bluetooth and sends commands to the ignition boxes. It is based on the Arduino Mega. A lesser…
- Fireworks Ignition BoxIgnition Box This box receives commands from the control box and powers the nichrome based fuses. Microcontroller An Atmel ATMEGA328P was used to for…
- Fireworks Tablet AppThis Android app is the UI for the Fireworks launcher project. Each igniter is represented by a circular button. UI Description The row color & outer…
- Remote Fireworks LauncherThe goal of this project was to use a tablet computer to remotely ignite fireworks. The components of the system include: Android tablet with custom…