Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Stenon
Portable soil monitoring device
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Stenon launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi HN! I’ve been working on an air quality measuring device called Air Lab for the past three years. It measures CO2, temperature, relative humidity, air pollutants (VOC, NOx), and atmospheric pressure. You can log and analyze the data directly on the device — no smartphone or laptop needed. To better show what the device can do and how it feels like, I spent the past week developing a web-based simulator using Emscripten. It runs the stock firmware with most features available except for networking. Check it out and let me know what you think! The firmware will be open-source and available…
2025 · networkedartifacts.com · its alternatives →
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Here's a "behind-the-scenes" look at my development of a cool sensor during my PhD (electrical engineering). This sensor is only about 1/3 of my total research for my degree and took about a year. I've been on HN for a while now and I've seen my fair share of posts about the woes of pursuing a PhD. Now that I'm done with mine I wanna share some anecdotal evidence that doing a PhD can actually be enjoyable (not necessarily easy) and also be doable in 3 years. When I started I knew I didn't want to work on something that would never leave the lab or languish in a dissertation PDF no one…
2024 · paulbupejr.com · its alternatives →
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I'm from a compost tech startup (Monty Compost Co.) focused on making composting more efficient for households and industrial facilities. But our tech isn’t just for composting— it’s a versatile system that can be repurposed for a wide range of applications. So, we’ve made it open source for anyone to experiment with! One of the exciting things about our open-source compost monitoring tech is its flexibility. You can connect it to platforms like Raspberry Pi, Arduino, or other single-board computers to expand its capabilities or integrate it into your own projects. Our system includes…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An open source Lora-based farm sensing and actuation network.
2019 · framagit.org · its alternatives →
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Intelligent auto-monitoring for your data warehouse
2023 · metaplane.dev · its alternatives →
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Monitor your world with Enviro and Enviro + Air Quality for Raspberry Pi!
2019 · shop.pimoroni.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I recently published a small open-source project. It’s a minimal network packet analyzer written in Go — designed more like a learning toy than a replacement for Wireshark. It currently supports parsing basic protocols like TLS, DNS, and HTTP, and includes a tiny fuzzing engine to test payload responses. You can inspect raw packet content directly from the terminal. The output is colored for readability, and the code structure is kept simple and clear. The entire program is very small — just about 400 lines of Go code. I know it’s not anywhere near Wireshark’s level, and I still…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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🔎 Monitor deep learning model training and hardware usage from your mobile phone 📱 - labml/guides/hardware_monitoring.md at master · labmlai/labml
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs - uptrace/uptrace
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Kit.domains▲198Hello Hacker News community, We are excited to announce the launch of KIT.DOMAINS, our new tool designed to simplify the management and monitoring of domains. KIT DOMAINS is a convenient and reliable solution for tracking the status of your domains and SSL certificates. With KIT DOMAINS, you will receive timely notifications about expirations and emerging issues, ensuring your sites remain operational and secure. Key features: - Expiration Tracking: Monitor the expiration dates of your domains to prevent accidental lapses. - SSL Certificate Monitoring: Keep your SSL certificates up-to-date…
2024 · kit.domains · its alternatives →
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Howdy HN! I find myself testing my ping from time to time, especially when my internet seems wonky while WFH. It feels like there should be an easier way test my ping than puling up a terminal or a complex web app - especially when I'm on my phone or any other device that doesn't have a terminal. I figured I should be the change I wish to see in the world and created this super light ping test. I also created a latency monitoring solution (https://github.com/cjjeakle/network-monitor), feel free to clone and try it out! I know there are a lot more mature monitoring…
2022 · ping.projects.chrisjeakle.com · its alternatives →
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Discover how mesonet weather from the COtL network empowers smarter decisions. Access live local data trusted by farmers to manage spray timing, risk, and operations.
2021 · cotl.com.au · its alternatives →
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Count people, bikes, & cars in real-time. Now shipping.
2015 · its alternatives →
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Tools for people who ship. T3 Code, T3 Chat, and more.
2014 · ping.gg · its alternatives →
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$99 sensor uses data to help you grow better veggies or weed
2020 · its alternatives →
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CO₂ & Temperature monitor. Contribute to larsp/co2monitor development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · visionect-epaper.com · its alternatives →
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Keep your website thriving with unmatched monitoring
2023 · its alternatives →
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If you've built any web-based app in the last 15 years, you probably used something like Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, etc. to monitor and trace your app, right? Why should it be different when the app you're building happens to be using LLMs? So today we're open-sourcing OpenLLMetry-JS. It's an open protocol and SDK, based on OpenTelemetry, that provides traces and metrics for LLM JS/TS applications and can be connected to any of the 15+ tools that already support OpenTelemetry. Here's the repo: https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry-js A few months ago we launched…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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