So this “jeremy batoff” thing popped up on my radar last Tuesday when I was scrolling through some dusty electronics forums at like 2 AM. Couldn’t sleep, y’know? Looked interesting – something about hacked sensors giving weirdly accurate readings. Figured I’d play with it over the weekend.
Saturday morning came around. Grabbed my Raspberry Pi 4 gathering dust since last year’s failed smart mirror project. Dusted it off. Found a cheap $30 sensor module online – some generic environmental thing claiming to measure air quality. Figured it was perfect for tinkering.
First step: Hooked everything up. Plugged the sensor into the Pi’s GPIO pins. Powered it up. Typed like 20 commands into terminal, copying some forum guy’s setup guide verbatim. Screen flooded with nonsense errors. Almost threw the damn Pi out the window.
Re-read the jeremy batoff notes more carefully. Missed a crucial step – had to install some obscure driver package. Typed:
sudo apt-get install libjankycrap-dev
Waited ages. Still didn’t work. Smashed keyboard a bit. Poured more coffee.
Eventually figured out I needed to manually clone some GitHub repo the forum post barely mentioned. Ran:
git clone *
cd stupid_repo
make install
Fucking finally the sensor blinked its little green light. Spent another hour reading CSV outputs wondering if the data was real or garbage.
Real breakthrough came Sunday afternoon. Found an old Python script buried in some forum comment. Wrote it into a file named hack_* like they said. Executed it. Suddenly my terminal started spitting out weirdly specific readings:
- “Living Room Dust Particles: High (Dog hair detected)”
- “CO2 Levels: Moderate (Open a window lazyass)”
- “Predictive Humidity Spike: 70% in 3 hours (Mold risk – clean your bathroom)”
It was actually analyzing patterns and roasting me personally. Laughed my ass off when it printed “User is brewing fifth coffee – suggest hydration”. How’d it even know?!
Total cost: $50 Pi + $30 sensor + four hours of my life + 20 coffee cups. Final setup’s ugly as sin though – wires everywhere, Pi balanced on cereal box. Works though. Might actually help me remember to water my plants now. Should probably unplug it before it learns enough to file divorce papers though.
