Corey Johnson

Conversion and news

Currently converting from the outdated (my install not necessarily the program) of WordPress over to Ghost CMS. Some things have been moved and others have been removed. I think that WordPress was more of a learning experience and stepping stone for wanting to learn more about web-hosting, blogs, and running

Home Automation

Smart Blast Gate for Workshop Dust Collection

So many updates to make... I'll start with this and fill in some blanks. A lot of my attention this year has been a return to woodworking. That's a long enough story to be it's own post so I'll save that for

Home Automation

Reworked Night vision on ESP32-CAM

Original credit and KUDOS to Hackermagnet at https://hackermagnet.com/night-vision-on-esp32-cam/ for the original STLs and working this out in the first place. He (hope I am using the correct pronoun) has some cool projects so be sure to check out the website. ESP projects are fascinating to me and

Projects

White Wolf's Sanctuary

Just a little update post. I have quite a bit of time on Discord lately as I have worked on InMoov and other robotic projects. There are many super helpful folks there (including Gael) that have helped me out. Now Discord isn't new by any means and I

Home Automation

Airbrush Booth made "Smart"

Setting the stage This Smart Airbrush Booth post stems from building my InMoov robot, Bob. When I decided to build Bob, I chose the color that I imagined I wanted him to be or as close as I could get to it. Throughout the printing process I experienced countless surface

Projects

What about Bob?

If you have been following along here or on Discord then you already know what this post will be about, my InMoov robot named Bob. One might say the work is never done but Bob is assembled and functional so I am about as close to done as I will

Business

SUNLU Filament and Products

This will not a long post. I have used about 25 rolls of filament in the last few months. Most of this use was in printing my InMoov robot but there have been a few other items produced as well. I have used both PLA and PETG in 6 or

Robotics

Build Your Own Robot

Let me prelude this post with a massive thank you to my wife for letting me bury myself into this project. As much as I get annoyed at times, building/making is actually a huge stress reliever for me. I have already referenced to this project in previous posts and

Projects

3D Printers and Filament

This is another post to build up to my current project of building an InMoov robot. I started my 3D Printing hobby about 5 years ago and have since only dove deeper into the pit. I now own 3 - 3D Printers and am considering a 4th (or 5th) to

Projects

Robots! Yes I said ROBOTS!

Who doesn't like robots? This post is really a prelude to my current, much larger project of which a teaser is at the bottom. Growing up in the late 70's and 80's, robots were a common topic. New broadcasts spoke of them in industrial

Projects

Overdue Updates

It has been a long while since my last post. I've worked on quite a few projects and thought "I should post about that" but then never seem to make it to that part. So I guess I will just give some brief overviews and then

Random

NexDock Touch

NexDock review using a Pi 4

Raspberry Pi

Simple Magic Mirror

A Magic Mirror has been one of those projects I always wanted to build but I couldn't justify the expense to myself. In a recent issue of The MagPi (Issue 90, Feb 2020), they outline a small-scale, simple magic mirror project that can be built relatively inexpensively. Supplies

Business

Reevaluating current tactics and beyond

White Wolf Enterprises has been operating for almost 9 years now. The company's primary offering has been AMSOIL, available through https://wwolf.us. As I review business expenses, vendors, and survey my own systems infrastructure, I am reevaluating current tactics and looking beyond. Costs First and foremost, I

Business

Articles I Like

I have a post to collect the quotes I like and want articles to have their own designation. Let me be clear, these articles were NOT written by me but by others and they deserve any and all credit. With that said, I want to record and share with others

Home Automation

A better garage door opener

One of the devices that I was particularly proud of was my voice and Home Assistant controlled garage door opener. I took a z-wave dry contact switch and wired it to a spare key-chain door remote and it worked amazingly well. I connected a z-wave door sensor and wrote some

Home Automation

Better Plant Sensor

Capacitive Soil Moisture Sensor Just as the heading suggests, this is about a capacitive soil moisture sensor. Initially, I was pretty happy with the result of the Plant soil moisture sensor that I recently posted. However, I quickly ran into an issue. The sensor module corroded within a week rendering

Home Automation

ZoneMinder and Camera woes

Here is another project from my October Update. Much of my original home automation setup started with wanting to have some surveillance capabilities. Not that I live in a terrible neighborhood or anything but I like the feeling of security having a few cameras gives me. I chuckle at the

Home Automation

Plant soil moisture sensor

As mentioned in my October update, my wife wants to add a house plant. This may not seem like anything newsworthy but in our home, plants come with an expiration date. She really wants one and I'd rather it not die so luckily I came across a soil

Home Automation

Project Update for October

I have not posted in a couple of weeks but have been working on plenty of things, so I figure I would at least post a project update. Electricity - ugh It was just a matter of time before the number of devices I added to my homelab, network, and

Leadership

10 things that require zero talent...

I have kept some version of this "10 things" poster in my office for many years. Overall, I feel that it represents qualities of a good employee and a strong leader. Each point seems simple enough and I sometimes re-read them to evaluate my own actions and behaviors

Network

DIN mounting for the Pi

This is not necessarily an exciting write-up. My main purpose is to show how easy this is and offer it as an alternative to typical cases and power supplies. Earlier in A cluster of Pi's, I referenced DIN mounting for the Pi. DIN rails along with the POE

Random

Be A Writer?

Backstory A decade or so ago I found myself with too much free time... There were so many zombie-related movies and shows popping up everywhere. A few were extremely painful to watch. How many times have you thought, "I'll never get that 90 minutes back". Knowing

Network

A cluster of Pi's

Please see disclaimer First let me acknowledge... What I built is technically a cluster of Pi's, but it is not a cluster system - yet. When the Raspberry Pi 4 was introduced, I spent many hours researching what I could do with it. Clustering was among the top

Raspberry Pi

Pi 4 SSD

For over year I have run a Pi 3 SSD system and have been fairly pleased with the performance. I frequently use this as a semi-portable desktop system and so long as I do not do anything too taxing, it always performed well. With the release of Pi 4, this