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My beginner Home Assistant class is up on YouTube

I taught my free Intro to Home Assistant class at the Dallas Makerspace on September 12, and the full recording is on YouTube now. The morning of the class I cut the live demo and taught it with the hardware in my hands instead. The outline, handout, and print files are free to reuse.

Animating my YouTube intro without a video editor

I wanted an animated logo intro for YouTube and I don't own After Effects. My logo was already an SVG, so I animated it with the browser's own animation API, screenshotted it 378 times, and let ffmpeg turn the pile of PNGs into a 1080p60 video. Total output: 6.3 seconds, about 180KB.