Dennis Mellican

Street Sign Generator

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"A screenshot is worth a thousand lines of code"

Dennis monitors home & solar energy usage in real-time at <b><a href='https://solariot.live'>solariot.live</a></b>.<p/>Tech Stack:<ul><li>Python</li><li>Modbus</li><li>Nginx</li><li>Grafana</li><li>Telegraf</li><li>InfluxDB</li><li>AWS Lambda</li><li>Oracle Cloud</li><li>Raspberry Pi</li><li>Ubuntu</li><li>Cloudflare</li></ul>

These bad actors aren't from Hollywood. Dennis keeps an eye on hackers with <b><a href='https://mellican.com/badactors/'>SlackView</a></b>.<p/>Tech Stack:<ul><li>PHP</li><li>Nginx</li><li>Fail2ban</li><li>iptables</li><li>Slack API</li><li>Oracle Cloud</li><li>Ubuntu</li><li>Ansible</li><li>Cloudflare</li></ul>

SolarIOT
Home energy monitoring

Astrophotography by Dennis Mellican
Astronomy Picture of the Minute

SlackView
Stream a Slack channel to a web page

Featured Project
Home Automation with Slack Chatbots

How a Chat Bot prevented a burglary

19 February, 2021: Build a LEGO Raspberry Pi Video Jukebox With Free Instructions and Code, Review Geek.
19 February, 2021: Raspberry Pi makes LEGO minifigures play their own music, Raspberry Pi Blog.
22 January, 2021: How a Chat Bot prevented a burglary, Adafruit Blog.
18 January, 2021: Deter burglars with a Raspberry Pi chatbot, Raspberry Pi Blog.
1 October, 2020: Best Raspberry Pi Projects, Tom's Hardware.
25 September, 2020: The LEGO Minifigure Jukebox, Adafruit Blog.
16 September, 2020: Turning LEGO Dimensions into a jukebox, Brick Fanatics.
15 September, 2020: Raspberry Pi Jukebox Uses LEGO Minifigures To Play Songs, Tom's Hardware.

4 October, 2022: Jupiter is closest it's been to Earth in nearly 60 years, giving Aussie astronomers rare glimpse at planet, 9 News.

Alone with a Camera
Mount Tibberoowuccum
A favourite place to watch the sunrise in the Glass House Mountains National Park.