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Just a project; just a beginning
After the visit to the notary, after learning what it would cost to rebuild the entire house, and after realising that even the simplest bureaucratic procedures would bring countless headaches, we set off on the road back home — still carrying the weight of ruin. We had one final appointment left: with a provincial architect…
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A dose of reality
Dreaming is easy. It was to be expected that turning those dreams into reality would be far more difficult — especially in an unfair world where some barely have enough to eat, others die in senseless wars, and the rest look the other way, conspiring to hold on to the little they have. In that…
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Two days until the journey
This wall of days that kept us apart from that long-awaited encounter with another barely tangible reality is finally beginning to crumble. The distance in time is frustrating, yet it also offers a wonderful opportunity to dream — piecing together fragments of reality that suit you best and creating a new reality in which everything…
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Those first steps
It all started with an advert on a well-known website: a ruined house in a remote location. It didn’t take us long to make up our minds, speak to the seller, sort out the paperwork, and visit the place to confirm that our first impressions were correct. It sounds like the perfect description of a…
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Overview
The Lares project emerged as an evolution of the home automation work that I did in 2004 in my own home.It all started with a humble device controller plugged into a PC motherboard on an ISA port, which had 16 inputs and 16 outputs. I was trying to bind all the important devices in the…
