the_smart_home_maker

the_smart_home_maker I am a passionate Smart Home Maker with the vision of enabling and inspiring anybody to build their own individualized with my

05/09/2026

The people who built AI can’t agree on whether it saves us or ends us.

One camp: Altman, Musk, Andreessen — „AI will save the world,“ literally written down.
The other: Hinton walked away from Google just to warn us. Bengio uses the word extinction.

Same technology. Same evidence. Opposite conclusions.

My honest take: I’m on the optimistic side, and I’m not blind about it. The risks are real. Pretending otherwise is lazy. AI is a tool — incredible when you use it deliberately, dangerous when you trust it blindly.

Where do you land? 👇

03/09/2026

Home Assistant Motivated My Daughter to Swim

She already knew how to swim — she was just too scared to get in the pool. So I built her a tiny Home Assistant dashboard: swim every day, and a hamster grows stage by stage, plus a real savings goal she’s earning toward.

Home Assistant isn’t just smart lights and thermostats. Sometimes it’s just a really good reason for a kid to jump in the water.

31/08/2026

My smart home improves while I am on vacation

10/08/2026

Beat the heat, maker style! 🌡️⚡

Needed a quick breeze at my desk, so I grabbed an Arctic Alpine 17 CO CPU cooler, hooked it up to an ESP32 with ESPHome, and built my own smart desk fan!

09/08/2026

Why do it all yourself when you can build a team? 🤖⚡️

I set up an open-source AI agent team to automate tasks and streamline my workflows.

31/07/2026

I kept blowing past my weekly Claude limit — always mid-task, always by surprise. So I gave myself a fuel gauge I can’t ignore. ⛽🤖

No dashboards, no tab-hopping. Here’s how it works:
① A small script on my machine reads my live Claude usage
② It pushes that into Home Assistant
③ Home Assistant fans it out — including to this LED matrix on my desk

What I see at a glance:
🟢 how much of the weekly limit is left
📈 a “pace” indicator — am I burning too fast to make it to reset?

Home Assistant as the hub, the matrix as the display. Now I actually stop before I hit the wall.

Would you run one on your desk? Save this for your next build 🔧

17/07/2026

From chaos to order 🧰

I built my own AI-powered inventory system for my maker space: QR codes on every bin, AI-classified parts, instant search for what’s inside.

Snap a photo of a new part → AI handles name, category, quantity and tags automatically. Need something? Check it out temporarily or remove it for good.

Full breakdown linked in bio. Follow for more real, self-built smart home projects.

11/07/2026

My running shoes wear out without telling me — so my smart home does the remembering 👟

Every run adds the distance automatically, and the dashboard shows when it’s time for a fresh pair. Simple build, weirdly satisfying.

09/07/2026

Self healing smart home - a long time wish comes true

21/06/2026

Why having a 3D printer is actually worth it

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