I made a thing!

As part of my ongoing air-exchange-based #HVAC project, I have an outdoor air quality sensor from #AmbientWeather (no sponsorship, I bought it). It's battery/solar powered, and that's fine... except for the part where that doesn't work here in the winter.

But since it plugs in to charge and keeps working when plugged in, winner winner chicken dinner, right?

NO! Because first you have to take the bottom off the case, then the charge plug sticks directly out from the bottom facing down, like a goddamn Apple Magic Mouse.

I can't fix the mouse, but I can fix _this_, and I have made a printable tray and rack system to let you use it that way. Enjoy!

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6153055

#weather #wawx #AmbientHVAC #3dPrinting #diy #maker

Nice to see my air-exchange HVAC assist system sensing air-quality issues overnight, overriding the temperature- and time-based system, and keeping the air-exchange system closed, exactly as designed.

code lives on github, btw

https://github.com/solarbirdy/ambient-hvac

#hvac #AmbientHVAC #diy #maker

Did I already push out another new version of ambient-hvac, the second in two days, this one adding a new seasonal mode for spring/fall?

Yes. Yes, I did. ^_^

https://github.com/solarbirdy/ambient-hvac

#diy #electronics #AmbientHVAC