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Do I still have a copy of . . .

12 March, 2019 wrightmac backup, hardware, Project

Pile of Data

Mound of data to mine and sift. 

 

There is a story in there somewhere, only if I could find it. 

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Fluke 87 rip and replace

12 March, 2019 wrightmac Fluke, hardware

It finally happened. My trusty, hand me down, Fluke 87 gave up the ghost. 

FlukeTransplant

 

Busted one is on the left, donor is on the right.  

A friend of mine who is a real electrical hardware engineer gave me his when … the rest of the story. . . “Fluke 87 rip and replace”

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Mac Mini Upgrade – Getting back on track

12 March, 2019 wrightmac Apple, hardware, Mac Mini, macOS

Alright, time to get back on track once again. I will still have pieces to pick up, but they will stumble in as I get time. It is time to get back to projects at hand; and they have been … the rest of the story. . . “Mac Mini Upgrade – Getting back on track”

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My Valentine

9 February, 2018 wrightmac Arduino, Arduino IDE, Art, ATTiny, Design, hardware, software

My Wife puts up with all of my fussing and tinkering, so this year I decided to put some of it to good use. To show her how much I care and hey, I can do tinkering for her too. … the rest of the story. . . “My Valentine”

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Bluetooth Speaker

28 July, 2017 wrightmac hardware, Project, woodworking

Bluetooth Speaker Project

We need a bluetooth speaker for the outside by the pool and I have also wanted one to use inside the house as well. This one is 90% complete. I still need to find what I am … the rest of the story. . . “Bluetooth Speaker”

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Raspberry Pi Arcade Project

6 July, 2017 wrightmac games, hardware, Project, Raspberry Pi, software, Vintage Computer

Next on the project list is a Raspberry Pi arcade system. Once again we are starting small with as much stuff as we could from around the Studio. I already had a Pi 3, monitor, keyboard, no controllers (ordered those), … the rest of the story. . . “Raspberry Pi Arcade Project”

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Divine Muse

6 July, 2017 wrightmac hardware, Project, Raspberry Pi, woodworking

I have been dragging around these chunks of cherry for more than I care to remember, but I have been keeping them for a project. I have bee stewing about a case for mi Pi Audio Streamer. 

I had the … the rest of the story. . . “Divine Muse”

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Vintage computing strikes again

29 June, 2017 wrightmac Atari, hardware, Vintage Computer

I was talking with my parents a while back and my mom mentioned my old Atari 400 (http://www.oldcomputers.net/atari400.html for the low down on the specs). That 6502 at 1.8Mhz, geeeeeeshe Louise! And 16k of RAM to boot!

Atari400

We both wondered … the rest of the story. . . “Vintage computing strikes again”

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Pi Update

22 June, 2017 wrightmac audio, hardware, Project, Raspberry Pi

Hold the presses! There has been a change of plans. After playing around with OSMC and some more thinking and drawing, I am going to change course with my Raspberry Pi project. Instead of a fancy pants media center, I … the rest of the story. . . “Pi Update”

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OSMC part 2

1 June, 2017 wrightmac audio, hardware, Raspberry Pi, software

During my downtime I have been reading up on the OSMC (Open Source Media Center) package for my media center project. It seems to be a nice, well put together, distro that does/is what its’ name says. I checked out … the rest of the story. . . “OSMC part 2”

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ESP8266 + OLED + graphics = frustration

25 May, 2017 wrightmac ESP8266, hardware, software

I have decided to make a clock; a simple one to begin with. I started with an ESP-01, an OLED, and some base code. It was fairly easy but did the job quite well. It would go out and fetch … the rest of the story. . . “ESP8266 + OLED + graphics = frustration”

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NeXTStep(s)

20 May, 2017 wrightmac Apple, hardware, NeXT

It fired up once, so I figured why not one more time and try and break into it.  I had some limited success. I will be posting a video of it, but I need to edit it before I can … the rest of the story. . . “NeXTStep(s)”

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