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 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”
Read moreWe 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”
Read moreNext 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”
Read moreI 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”
Read moreI 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!
We both wondered … the rest of the story. . . “Vintage computing strikes again”
Read moreHold 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”
Read moreDuring 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”
Read moreI 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”
Read moreIt 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)”
Read moreSince entering the wonderful world of electronics, I have had an itch to make an audio amp. Probably one reason is that I am sans a real audio system right now and I am digging the hardware aspect of the … the rest of the story. . . “LM386 Audio Amp”
Read moreRecently I have had a nagging thought about where a file was. It is a screenshot I took of our Cisco Modem/ISDN banks, AS5300’s, showing their uptime. I have to say they were pretty impressive for the day and as … the rest of the story. . . “Uptime”
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