8 months ago, we explored a quirky yet practical project: 'The Mailbox Notification You Didn't Need'. Ever missed a package alert? Catch the clever DIY journey and see why it's still a fun build today! youtu.be/pPsjuHe1SkQ

7 months ago we unveiled 'The Smart Home Revolution You've Been Waiting For.' Curious about smart tech integrations? Dive back in: youtu.be/ywIyTjOWGBw

Throwing it back to our deep dive into home automation with N8N, AI, and lighting up your space with WLED & IKEA FADO. Discover how to integrate these tools for a smart future. Still a must-watch for any tech enthusiast! youtu.be/4s0HYaT6K6M

From chaos to order: I built an AI-powered inventory system for my maker space. QR codes on bins show what's inside, AI auto-classifies new parts from a photo — name, category, quantity, tags. Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=qsKlmXBsWqA

My running shoes wear out silently — so Home Assistant tracks their mileage for me now. Every run adds the distance automatically, and a dashboard shows when it's time for a new pair. 👟 youtube.com/shorts/PQ9hG...

The end of manual smart home repairs? 🤖 New clip with Lukas: how AI keeps my house running — catching and fixing failures before I even notice something broke. Just a taste of the full episode. Watch 👇 youtube.com/shorts/B3wk7... #AI #SmartHome #HomeAssistant

The end of manual smart home repairs? #AI #SmartHome #HomeAssistant

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BCI trials moving out of the lab (MIT Tech Review). Smart homes go: switches → apps → voice → intent. Tech is solvable. Trusting your house to read you isn't. www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/19/1...

A startup, Subquadratic, says it made AI handle long texts far faster and cheaper — by skipping the word-links that don't matter. Their claim: $8 vs $2,600 per query. www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/19/1...

NYU finance prof Aswath Damodaran: the next AI crash could hurt more than dot-com. Why? Infrastructure spend is debt-financed this time. Margins stay thin. Deepseek squeezes pricing. Apple's restraint suddenly looks smart. Full take: the-smart-home-maker.com/short-post/a...

Custom 3D-printed adapters for every tool on the wall. Sized for the exact handle. The exact head. The exact angle. Each one is a 10-minute design + an hour of print. Worth every gram of filament. youtube.com/shorts/ADDye...

My garage camera now does the "did I take the bin out?" panic for me. The evening before pickup: snapshot → vision check → trash calendar lookup → Telegram with photo proof if today's bin is still inside. Zero missed pickups since I built it. youtube.com/shorts/cYrGg...

Charity Majors: AI made code cheap to produce. Engineering discipline didn't disappear — it moved upstream. Specs, validation, observability matter more now, not less. "Production is a stage of development." charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands...

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less

If you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what's happening now.

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Bambu Lab AMS 2 Pro stopped pulling filament after days. Support said "we'll send a replacement hub" → I imagined a new unit → arrived as a tiny spare part 🫠 Disassembled the AMS, swapped it, running again. Owning a 3D printer = learning to repair it. youtube.com/shorts/4i4QOdXZ9EA

"AI is a magic box. You put something in, you get something out — and hope it's right." Lukas (hobbyblogging.de) and I on episode 28: how we actually use AI in our smart homes day-to-day. Claude Code, n8n, custom UIs, what we anonymise. youtu.be/Vb5zjeNECi4

Finally — one button on my iPhone for any thought. Press → speak → release. My workflow transcribes, classifies (smart-home / work / idea), and routes it: tasks → Nova, work → email, ideas → notebook. Telegram confirms in 2s. youtube.com/shorts/7TjzO...

Wife smashed her Pixel 7a. Screen completely shattered. So I replaced it myself. Nothing beats a successful DIY repair. www.youtube.com/shorts/LFoF6... #DIY #PhoneRepair

My house starts heating before I even tell it Im coming home. 100km out, a proximity sensor realized we are about to come home — heating leaves vacation mode, deactivated automations and Smart plugs reactívate, alarm disarms itself: ▶️ youtube.com/shorts/_c73SRgT-H0 #smarthome #homeassistant

Every evening at 8, my house texts me. Today's energy, solar production, alarm status, anything weird. I'm on vacation — the briefing follows me anywhere. Only rule: tell me what matters. Anomaly → ping. Quiet day → short check-in. 📺 youtube.com/shorts/n9neU...

On vacation. Yearly heating maintenance was due. Old me would have cancelled. Instead: temporary code on my phone, technician let himself in, code auto-expired. Smart locks earn their keep on days you're not home. 📺 youtube.com/shorts/N9XGk...

A joystick transplant. Both sticks on my kids' Megalodon RC controller broke. Suspected the truck first — hours on the wrong patient. Then: desoldered the dead sticks, wired in a 2-axis KY-084, modded the cover. Truck rolls. 📺 youtube.com/shorts/5PzXJ...

Our smart home knew we were stressed before we did - see how our family Stress monitor works youtube.com/shorts/e3Y9X...

Our smart home knew we were stressed before we did

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The Smart Home Gap No One Is Talking About I’m putting out a challenge to the inventors and engineers: We need a rugged, intelligent robot for outdoor surfaces that handles the dirty work for us. It’s time to automate the driveway! 💦🤖 Who’s with me? youtube.com/shorts/TVmz6...

The Smart Home Gap No One Is Talking About

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Tightened the loop with my home AI assistant: I dump rough ideas into it, it drafts proper concept notes from them — and now sends me a Telegram message with Implement / Refine / Discard buttons whenever a draft's ready. Click → it picks up the next step. No more concepts vanishing in the chat sc...

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🎉 Celebrating 20 years of the Maker Movement! From DIY projects to innovative tutorials, this community has transformed how we approach Smart Home tech. What’s your favorite maker project or hack? Share your experiences and let’s inspire each other! #MakerMovement #DIY #SmartHome #20YearsOfMaking

Finally! The Bambulab X2D is a BEAST 💪 youtube.com/shorts/XC5_6... #3dprinting #smarthome

Finally! The Bambulab X2D is a BEAST 💪

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People ask me how many automations I run. Current count: 275+ 🤖 148 Home Assistant automations and 127 n8n workflows. Some save energy, some save time, and some just make me smile. What's YOUR count? 👇 #HomeAssistant #SmartHome #Automation #n8n

Ever had a Smart Home fail that left you laughing (or crying)? 😅 Share your funniest stories of tech gone wrong! Let's learn from each other's blunders and make our homes smarter together! 🏠💡 #SmartHomeFails #TechTroubles #HomeAutomation #ShareYourStory

I track every watt in my house. Last month my solar panels covered 39% of our energy needs ☀️ Not bad, but there is room for improvement! Do you track your energy? What tool do you use? #SmartHome #SolarPower #EnergyMonitoring #HomeAssistant

I just dropped a pretty controversial take: AI coding agents are making the traditional Home Assistant dashboard obsolete. Watch the full video and tell me — am I crazy or onto something? 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4dZ...

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