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
It finally happened. My trusty, hand me down, Fluke 87 gave up the ghost.
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
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
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 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”
Read moreRaspberry Pi Arcade Project
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”
Read moreDivine Muse
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”
Read moreVintage computing strikes again
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!
We both wondered … the rest of the story. . . “Vintage computing strikes again”
Read morePi Update
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”
Read moreOSMC part 2
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”
Read moreESP8266 + OLED + graphics = frustration
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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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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