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#TwoMinuteTeardown: USB-C charged AAA battery

Two Minute Teardown: USB-C charged AAA battery

First, these things have existed for quite a few years now but people still seem to be discovering them. If you are one of todays lucky 10,000 people to find out about them, you’re welcome. I hope these can change your mind about rechargeable batteries; they’re good, now!

One of mine started failing with intermittent output voltage so I decided to take it apart and see what was inside.

#TwoMinuteTeardown: Corporate Systems Engineering SSHAAC00-S041911

Corporate Systems Engineering SSHAAC00-S041911

Electric utilities can employ “load shed” devices throughout their grid to manage load. These devices are usually found on air conditioners, water heaters, pool pumps and other large electrical loads. Typically they’ll offer you a small financial incentive to allow the utility to cycle your device off for short periods of time during peak demand events.

The Corporate Systems Engineering SSHAAC00-S041911 is one such device.

Frigate in Kubernetes

Frigate: Kubernetes edition

This is a follow up to my ‘Frigate From Scratch’ post. Most of that post is still relevant today but I have since moved almost all of my workloads into Kubernetes.

This post is intended to document some of the issues I hit while trying to get Frigate running in my k8s cluster. This is not every issue I hit, just the ones that are not directly related to my specific environment/setup/workflows.

#TwoMinuteTeardown: Multiple LED Controllers

Introduction

Bit of a change in format; instead of one massive post for all the misc. 11-11 teardowns, I’m grouping them. This post is the “LED Controller” group. I managed to snag the following on Ali Express:

To continue from last year’s trend, I waned to celebrate that all three of these LED controllers have: