Standing on the shoulders of giants still requires climbing to the top of a fricken giant.

Wasting nothing, I wanted to use the lil’ temperture sensors that my obsolete Corsair fan controller game with

Somehow it took me way too long to determine that they are 25k NTC Thermistors. Mainly because many fancy thermistor libraries for arduino out there support a huge list of types, with no indication of what is the most popular.

After this feat of detective work, I can basically hand the rest of this post to adafruit’s fantastic guide on how to use it surprisingly accurately with an actual algorithm to get a temperature in Celsius. For hardware, chuck in in series with a normal resistor to create a voltage divider, and use the analog pins to take measurements at the midpoint.

I’ve got a whole bunch of fancy Noctua PWM fans in my PC I want to control the speed of. How do I boss them around? The most authoritative source of how these fans communicate is from an Intel specification. Even better is a whitepaper by Noctua themselves that describes every detail you could ever want to know.

Okay so at least we aren’t going to be reverse engineering these fans. What exactly do they want on that PWM input pin?

Possible? Worth doing?

Quite, it would seem.

The Australian Department of Health released the COVIDSafe app yesterday.

The concept seems great; use a technology previously used by advertisers to track you and sell ads. Now instead it can be used to save lives. I love it.

Except a lot of the Australian public does not love it. Maybe because it was promised to be open sourced, then wasn’t? Or that they promised local data would be encrypted, but it isn’t? What about when they said they wouldn’t use Singapore’s TraceTogether but then completely based the app on it’s code? The app still links to the Singapore’s TraceTogether store page;

Formatting a webpage into a ready to print pdf is so much harder than you’d think.

Make a Google voice command send an infrared remote command.