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#442: Running Your Home Like a Startup: The Weekly Sync
Learn how to apply startup-style syncs and retrospectives to your household to reduce anxiety and stop things from slipping through the cracks.
#389: Minimizing the Blast Radius: Why Your Smart Home Needs Distributed Hardware
When a single home server fails, the whole house goes dark. Learn how to shrink your "blast radius" by moving to a distributed hardware grid.
#374: The Walls Have Eyes: The Reality of Hidden Travel Cameras
From power plugs to smoke detectors, hidden cameras are easier to hide than ever. Learn how to protect your privacy while traveling.
#156: Build vs. Buy: The ESP32's Smart Home Reign
Discover why the ESP32 is the ultimate brain for DIY smart homes and how AI tools are revolutionizing hardware hacking for everyone.
#137: The Ghost in the Machine: Why Gadgets Wake Up After Blackouts
Why does a power flicker turn on your lights but not your TV? Herman and Corn explain the engineering behind post-outage device behavior.
#112: Why Your Smart Bulbs Fail and Airports Don't
Why do airports stay lit while your smart home fails? Herman and Corn dive into industrial-grade tech and the physics of beaming internet.
#80: Why Your Smart Home Isn't an Airport: Industrial Reliability
Why can't you run the Louvre on a Raspberry Pi? Herman and Corn dive into the rugged, wired world of industrial building automation.
#78: The Local Control Trade-Off
Is Zigbee a "reliable old truck" or a dead end? Herman and Corn debate the future of local control in the age of Matter and Thread.