Moving into a new house tends to create a lot of little projects. There’s been a few extra in the case of my new home, since it didn’t have any appliances, and was missing quire a few of the small trimmings. Things like, handles on the kitchen cabinets. It’s an easy little thing to add, … [Read more…]
Since the primary focus of this blog is projects, i thought it would be appropriate to talk about my new space a bit. Last week, I’ve moved into a new home. Mostly we wanted a home that was more on one level to accommodate my wife and kids and their mobility issues, but also we … [Read more…]
So, I made an app. A for real, runs on things app. More accurately, I followed a little tutorial to make an app, as part of the Xamarin Challenge over at Thurrott.com. The app itself is a little weather app, it even includes location based weather and forecasting. I know this isn’t particularly impressive but … [Read more…]
I’ve neglected posting much lately, not so much because I haven’t been doing anything but more because I’ve been busy and not really with anything deserving of it’s own post. I hope to remedy this a bit next year but for now I just wanted to run through some recent projects I’ve been working on. … [Read more…]
I’ll try to remember to do an update post if things iron out but I wanted to throw out my experience so far with Cloud At Cost, a VPS provider that charges a one time upfront fee for their VPS, as opposed to a monthly subscription or other reoccurring cost. They had a sale for … [Read more…]
There was a post that came across on Medium recently, How to Make a Twitter Bot in Under an Hour. It’s pretty straight forward, though it seems to be pretty geared towards non “techie” types, mostly because it’s geared towards people making the bot on a Mac and it uses something called Heroku to run … [Read more…]
Something like ten years or so ago, I built my own hardpad for use on Dance Dance Revolution and Stepmania. Most of the pads that are easily bought are “soft pads”. These vary in quality, I have a couple of pads that are pretty light weight and plastic I used ages ago. These pads tend … [Read more…]
So of all the things on the network, the DNS and DHCP server are pretty important. Especially because my experience has been the router the ISP provided is kind of mediocre at doing the DHCP job. So when the Raspberry Pi I’ve tasked with doing the work started flaking out I was a little worried. … [Read more…]
I wanted to take some time to touch on my every changing collection of Internet of Things style devices. Honestly, it’s kind of iffy what constitutes an “IOT” device, but for the most part I’m sticking with “cheap” and “non traditional computing devices”. The chief player among these are of course… The Raspberry Pi I’m … [Read more…]
I’ve already briefly discussed my NextThing CHIP computers before. A few weeks ago I was purchasing a Raspberry Pi 3 and found that the store had Pi Zeros in stock as well, so I tossed one on because, hey, $5, and they are apparently hard to find. These two little devices are pretty similar, but … [Read more…]