3D Printing Printing Flexible Filament on the Ender 3 This morning, I decided to 3D print a cover for cat food tin cans, so I could store open cans more elegantly in the fridge. And since I still had some flexible filament
3D Printing Getting Started with 3D Printing In May 2019, I bought a 3D printer and getting into this technology was surely one of the most fascinating learning experiences of my life. In this post, I would like to share
Home Assistant Switching (back) to Hass.io When I started using Home Assistant, I actually tried Hass.io first. Hass.io brings its own runtime environment, including an operating system, to run Home Assistant. In addition, Hass.io hass an
3D Printing Solving 3D Printing Issues Yesterday, my 3D printer suddenly started to have severe underextrusion issues. After trying many different approaches to solve the problem, I finally have a working 3D printer again. Yesterday morning, at approximately 9:
photography Photo Walk in Ulm I went on a photo walk with my friends today. I am planning to create a website for my photography; but so far it's not up and running. So I am posting a
My Year 2019 in Review A new year has begun. And I wanted to have a look back at my 2019. Looking at my pictures of 2019 and trying to remember what has been, I realize that quite
How much do I drive? Two days ago, I took the last trip with our car for this year. I was curious how my mileage over the last few years developed. Especially, since I stopped commuting by car
Purchases I didn't regret I tend to buy stuff prematurely only to later regret having done so. But in the last two years I have made some purchases that I absolutely did not regret. Here are my
Home Assistant My Home Automation Setup In this post, I would like to provide an overview of my home automation setup. I will try to keep it concise as well as up to date when things change.This is
Home Assistant Experience with Smart Lights Since I moved to a new apartment in September, I also started to re-build my Home Automation system from scratch. At the old place, I didn't really have automated lights (except for some
blog Moving Day I am not only moving in real life, I am also moving this blog. This used to be available under home.matou.de because I intended it to be a blog about mostly
blog Coming up... hopefully So, regular blogging went well so far. The last post was already two months ago. I guess I have a lot of other stuff going on right now, but I really hoped I
blog Multi-language ghost posts I prefer writing my posts in English, as this probably can reach the most people. However, I am from Germany and know quite a few people who do not speak English very well.
blog Starting this blog - the technical perspective I never liked bloaty software. That includes websites. So I was never very keen on blog software like Wordpress. However, I do like it when websites look fancy and are responsive. While it
blog My take on home automation I have been thinking about starting a blog... once again. While I have started new websites for a few times now, I never had a consistent topic to write about and all my
blog Featured Pictures on this Blog When looking at my articles, you might be wondering: “You are writing about technical stuff. What do the pictures have to do with it?”. Well, actually, I haven't been writing about technical stuff
technology Vi mode for everything When it comes to editing text documents, many people especially programmers have a strong opinion which text editor is the best. I also have such an opinion. For quite some time I have
