About

Nick Cupo is a DIY hobbyist in Central Florida who builds home automation hardware, cooks, and photographs. He writes about his projects at nickcupo.com.

I shoot people and fights. Portraits and night work around Central Florida on a Sony a6500 with fast primes, and amateur and regional MMA cards: weigh-ins, walkouts, the fight, the corner, the decision. Fighters buy their photos from Fight photos, and promotions can have the whole card covered.

The rest is stuff I built for the house: an ESP32 on the driveway gate, a sensor in the water softener salt tank, a controller for the sauna my coach built at the jiu-jitsu gym, an oven Home Assistant can preheat. And food I cook again.

The writeups say what I actually did, including the shortcuts. If a resistor is missing or a board is hanging out of a vent slot, it says so. The recipes are written so they work the first time.

Contact

Email [email protected].

Want a card covered? Send the date, the venue, and roughly how many bouts. Bought photos and something is wrong with the order? Email me and I will sort it out the same day.

Questions about a project are best as an issue on its GitHub repository, so the answer helps the next person too.

Elsewhere: GitHub, Instagram, LinkedIn.

Code

Every project with hardware has a public repository with the config, the schematic, and the Home Assistant pieces: github.com/nickcupo.

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