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Hack the parish!
Glory to Jesus Christ! As they say in the Catholic East. Welcome to our latest bright idea: a blog where we collect the various hare-brained schemes that we occupy ourselves with when there isn’t a sermon to write, the kids are already asleep, and we have too much time on our hands and too little self-discipline not to indulge in various little projects of our own.
The projects we write about will have some use in the parish, at least tangentially. They will involve a lot of time wasted, as well as money, potentially — ever thought, “I can do this for £10 using an ESP32” only to find yourself £80 deep as you forgot to buy solder suckers and while you ordered in things from china you might as well get one of those LoRa boards you saw? Well, we did.
Fr Kormos is a priest serving in the North East of England, and is an absolute novice to electronics and programming (apart from some years of PHP and Web dev experience), but is at least bold with a soldering iron, probably too bold for his own good.
John Maximilian will write his own intro when he finds time amidst looking after a beautiful daughter, singing plainsong, data mining, creating WiFi controlled fridges, and fixing all the things.
We have been good friends for a few years, and have a shared passion for things like plainchant, turkish coffee, Lidl’s middle aisle, the Divine Office, theology, woodworking, gadgets, and other things.