Nick Momrik

Last fall, a Facebook ad for Hamilton popped up. It was coming to Detroit and I’d always heard people rave about the show, so I bought us tickets as a Christmas present. Brandi and I had never been to a musical (or even a play), so we didn’t have any expectations. On Saturday we drove down to the Fischer Theatre in Detroit for the 2pm show. What an incredible building, with staircases you could…

I’ll probably remember the time I bought this new flavor of Mountain Dew because it was the first day of our road trip to The Masters. What a name for a new flavor. Dirty! I had read it’s not a limited release so they plan to sell it for quite some time. “Dirty” is probably what they should call the taste testers, because this is pretty gross and leaves a noticeable aftertaste. I’ll give it a…

Not long ago the old JamBox sitting in one of my office display case’s caught my eye. After picking it up I noticed it used an ESP32 development board, so I had to flash it for ESPHome. I downloaded the PixelOperator8 font and uploaded it to my esphome/fonts folder in Home Assistant. Then I figured out the following YAML to get the buttons, potentiometers (knobs), and LED Matrix working. #…

The first winter in our house was a challenge figuring out where to set the house humidifier connected to our furnace. How do you balance comfortable humidity against the risk of window condensation? I really had no idea and it was common to see water or ice on the inside of our windows during the coldest days. I had wired our house humidifier through the furnace so I could use the Ecobee…

A new year means it’s time for a recap of my maker projects from last year. We’ve settled in to the new house, which let to quite a few home automation things and setting up my shop. January Network Rack Cart Basement Wall Collage Home Ethernet and Wi-Fi Omada Controller: HP Print between VLANs February Creating an ESPHome Remote Control Device with Infrared & Radio Frequency Modding a…

With my big shop table done and a lot of storage space to fill, I finally started to tackle the boxes and piles of things that have been sitting in the corner for nearly a year and a half. First up was towels, rags, cleaning supplies, and first aid. We had an unused plastic shelving unit, so I put it to use. It went between my Ryobi cordless tool wall and the utility sink. Finally trying to pick…