Foothills Builds
Builds, life, and adventure in the Rocky Mountain Foothills.
Building things - Living rural - Having fun
What you’ll find here
Hands-on builds from the foothills - timber and woodwork, electronics and firmware, homestead projects, and the odd adventure. Things made, things fixed, and what they taught along the way.
Featured project: thesada
Open-source property monitoring on ESP32 - custom C++ firmware, MQTT over TLS, cellular failover, Lua scripting, web dashboard. Deployed and running 24/7 on a rural property, watching the things that matter when nobody’s home.
ESP32 C++ MQTT Cellular Off-grid
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