After years on GitHub, shifting priorities and ethical concerns prompted a decision to move to a better-aligned platform. Updates will follow once the migration is settled.

The rack plan gave way to an IKEA SKÅDIS wall for Raspberry Pis, using printed mounts to keep the cluster visible, accessible, and off the desk, with room to grow.

he capture loop is back: images from sunset to sunrise with per frame exposure tweaks. Next up is packaging observations, sending data off device, and refining the capture window.

A simple Spring Boot and Thymeleaf app that manages Night Sky Pi cameras from one dashboard with camera status, observation review, data download, and scheduled clean ups.

Smigle was great but too feature heavy for the site’s needs, so a fork on GitHub trims features, simplifies the footer, and keeps the focus on speed and readability.

Use a Netlify build hook and a tiny scheduled GitHub Action to rebuild the site daily so future dated Hugo posts publish automatically without manual deploys.

A minimal, low cost capture node for all sky imaging, built around a Pi Zero 2 W and the HQ Camera, with Python services that capture overnight and package data for processing elsewhere.

Compact, tidy, and functional: a budget-friendly garage workspace with Gridfinity, Skadis, and a simple bench-first layout.

Measuring noise and reducing it with printable feet and a paving slab base.

Printing scaled calibration cubes to isolate ghosting, base gaps, and squareness issues.