This is the stereotypical SPST toggle switch. These are everywhere.
I like toggle switches. I like the tactile impression they make on my finger as I flip them. The satisfying click that tells me, 'yes, it did'.
But sometimes mounting them is a bit of …
read moreRun Home to Mama: The Bug Pages
The Bug Shakedown
We took a shakedown overnighter.
The Bug gets a logo.
Just a little touch of art for The Bug. The dragonfly is a favorite bug in these parts. We have them zooming around our …
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The woods behind our house. Thick, full of danger.
"Did you hear that?" I ask. "What?", she says. "I thought I heard a cat crying in the woods out there." She stops, listens and says, "No, I don't hear anything."
I go on about my business …
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Clipped from the Legrand website, this is the Wiremold 500/700 Small Raceway we've all come to know and love.
You've seen it. You probably just didn't notice. It's ubiquitous like walls and floors.
Wiremold has been around a long time, and is a very useful product. In my …
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This is Stackernoes. We play with a double-nine set, but I don't think it matters.
First thing let me say this: I did a reasonable search of the Internet for a similar game, and I didn't find one. So until proven otherwise, I'm under the impression I …
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What in the world happened here!?
If you have pets, it's generally a choice you've made. Kinda like getting married or having kids, or both . . . or neither, but you get my point.
We love our pets. Dogs, cats, weasles, skunks, chickens, skinks …
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The Yaesu FP-1030A is a great power supply. 5-stars!
I never said everything I post here is going to knock your socks off. This little blurb certainly will not do that.
However, when I find something that is pretty easy to do and makes my …
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Coming. Going. Streaming. Flowing.
"If this is too long for you to read, then maybe you don't need to know."
Teaching Men to Fish
I'm new to HF. And HF is new. HF is being reinvented every day. For …
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Image: This was purchased to replace a very old AA battery powered cordless trimmer.
. . . or so they say. But sometimes you don't even get that.
My old Wahl AA battery powered beard and mustache trimmer was on its last leg. It had endured leaky …
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Image: This is The Monstrosity. It was thusly named by my wife.
My hobby bench was in a seriously sad state. I can't believe I don't have a picture. I can only guess I was too embarrassed to let anyone see …
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Image: The screen served by Brilliant on my local network.
(PlayerPi? Brilliant? wha?) 1 Photo gallery below.
It is possible to control devices using IR with a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
In the old days if you wanted to …
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Multiple personalities can be fun until they turn into a mess. Then it's fun again when you find out you can clean up the mess quickly and easily. Such is the case here.
I chose 'casspop' as a username on Github a long …
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Does this look like a project to you? It does to me.
It's one thing to read about recycling on the Internet, or to see kids shows promote the ideals of good stewardship of resources. It's another thing altogether to actually make something useful out of junk. I maintain the …
read moreIntroducing the SnapSafe Item No. 75430. It fails job number two. I purchased this at …
read moreSome time ago, one of the GPIO pins on WeatherPi stopped working. It was the one the tipping bucket rain gauge was attached to. I was able to move the wire to another pin, and change my program. Problem solved.
When the rain gauge stopped working again, I assumed I …
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LilWeatherPi is the newest member of the PiNet family.
Why another WeatherPi? Well, I was concerned that my humidity readings may be skewed by the proximity of WeatherPi (the original) to the pool. There are times when the air is completely still, and I have actually measured the humidity with …
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Every once in a while I learn a valuable lesson. Sometimes that lesson is more valuable because it actually costs me money.
Today's lesson is that, even though these three batteries look the same on the outside, and all three fit into the same holder, one of them is very …
read moreThis is a follow-up to this post introducing an "spreadsheet to receipt printer" shopping list system.
There are downsides to everything, including paper shopping lists. The most frequently confronted downside to paper shopping lists is experienced when you reach into your pocket for the list, and realize you left it …
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We've been around the block with shopping lists. From a piece of paper with handwritten notes to desktop PC created lists printed on 8.5x11" paper to apps like Out of Milk on the phone, we've done it all.
And we've been less than happy with all those. Now that …
read moreSurely, among the MILLIONS of people who are regularly devouring every word I write here on this blog, someone has asked the question, "Why go to all the trouble of building your own bespoke home automation system when there are great open source offerings like OpenHAB and Home Assistant out …
read moreFor years I've wished I could recycle laptop displays instead of just throwing them away. It just seemed so unnecessarily wasteful. Now I can reuse them thanks to some enterprising people in China and eBay.
Using this driver card and cables, I was able to build a Raspberry Pi development …
read moreYou look at him. He looks at you. You're thinking, "How could replacing a SSD in a computer take all day?" He's thinking, "Where do I …
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