Rich in knowledge, poor in cash.
Most of us have a soldering iron on our bench. Some of us even have nice, fully temperature-controlled ones (I grabbed a used Hakko FM-202 awhile back). When it comes to portable irons though, the options get far more limited….
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I’ve had a pair of these 3″ Tang Band drivers that I got from a Parts-Express buyout that have been sitting idle far too long, so I decided it was time to build a box for them. I envisionsed a…
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Valve has released SteamOS into the wild, and invited us to play. And so I have, well outside the recommended parameters of their system requirements… because where’s the fun otherwise? For reference: http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown My SteamOS test machine is an old…
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About 5-6 years ago, I was poking around the internet, looking for information on this cyberpunk RPG I’d heard about called Shadowrun. This led me to a simple little corner of the Shadowrun Webring, a page run by a chummer…
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Oh hey, what’s this?
Well, last weekend I pulled out the AUX and iPod jacks from my car and went to work adapting proper connections on the ends for standard car head units – namely a 3.5mm plug for the AUX and USB for…
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Just did some plugin consolidation and reconfiguring, testing things out. Last batch of cider failed. It was good right up until bottling, and then it seems something got into the jug and turned the cider by the time we got…
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Well, not *quite* yet. A friend on IRC has VERY generously ordered a Peaberry SDR kit to be shipped to me. It’s a relatively inexpensive, low-power HF band transceiver (1W transmit power). It does come as a kit, with primarily…
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No resolutions, just glad we made it without blowing ourselves up. As for things to come in the next year: More cider! Maybe beer! Finally finishing the packet radio interface! Acquiring HF gear! (looking at the peaberry) That’s probably most…
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