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Ryan Diver

My name is Ryan Diver. This is my work in progress site.

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Zigbee Doorbell - WIP

Zigbee Doorbell - WIP

Problem When I’m sat in my garden or working in my 2nd floor office, I can’t hear people knocking nor can I hear the doorbell. As you can imagine this can be …

Kitchen Storage Idea

Kitchen Storage Idea

Woohoo got myself on IKEA HACKERS!!! I am and always have been an avid reader of the IKEA Hackers website by Jules. I’ve copied a few over the years but this …

Nest Thermostat Hot Water controlled by Alexa

Nest Thermostat Hot Water controlled by Alexa

UPDATE 15/11/2019 Sorry everyone, Google has broken this and added a reCaptcha to the login page that means that automation of logging in is now well and truly …

Viral WordPress Theme Homepage Image Size Problem

Viral WordPress Theme Homepage Image Size Problem

After finally working out how to add a featured image to the homepage for posts I ran into a problem where the images were appearing as full sized. This meant …

Hotel TV + Amazon Fire Stick Problem

Hotel TV + Amazon Fire Stick Problem

For the last couple of months, when I travel with work I have been taking my Amazon Fire Stick with me so I can catch up with the new Top Gear called The Grand …

My thoughts on the new Carbon GT

My thoughts on the new Carbon GT

Im sure that loads of people with the board will be posting pictures and videos on the facebook groups (as will I) but this is here for anyone that doesnt know …

New House Old Tech. Replacing a Danfoss TP9000 with a Nest 3rd gen.

New House Old Tech. Replacing a Danfoss TP9000 with a Nest 3rd gen.

Me and my partner bought a new house and it took me ages to work out how the programmable thermostat works. So for ages I was looking buying a Nest Thermostat …

Minecraft Bluetooth Ore

Minecraft Bluetooth Ore

Recovered – Minecraft Cube A few years ago I made a bluetooth minecraft cube for a friends birthday. It got featured on hackaday.com of which I was and still am …

Valentines Day – A Blinky Bouquet

Valentines Day – A Blinky Bouquet

Again this is very much a blast from the past, early 2013 to be exact. Got me my first mention on hackaday.com and on the dangerousprototypes.com blog! It …