Overdoing a Thermostat
Yesterday I dismantled my Raspberry Pi and liberated the fan. My mission was two-fold: 1) silence the fan once in a while, and 2) experience building a real-world control loop. In Coding as Catharsis I introduced a little supervisory program I called Cricket. Its job is to keep watch for issues, to take certain actions when it can, and to signal for help when it must. Its region of interest is my home lab, a cloud-like collection of virtual machines I intend to subject to the relentless waves of chaos I call Real Life (TM). Think battered coastline in a hurricane, only smaller and with less water, and wind, and well … everything but the chaos. ...