Category Archives: Technical

Cleaning House Sleeping Great

Posted on December 10, 2016 by larry

I build a new arduino device today to do a 30-30-30 reset of routers. Jumper cables are too long, but it works.  I originally placed a nail under it hoping the weight of the gadget would hold down the reset … Continue reading →

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Building a bunch of routers

Posted on December 9, 2016 by larry

I think I got all the parts I need to build these routers. I fried two of them though. When you are flashing via CFE, you must use an original linksys one.  

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Not Really Snow Day

Posted on December 8, 2016 by larry

Today flew by fast.  Didn’t know it was nearly 11PM as I post. Did my final presentation of 2016 today, we were worried that there was going to be snow interfering with our day. Meh… Not much of an event … Continue reading →

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Cold, Paperwork, Treasure Find Day

Posted on December 7, 2016 by larry

Day started off cold, I had foresight to make sure my car was covered so I did not have to spend much time defrosting it this morning.  But a weird thing happened, I got in after a shower, and the … Continue reading →

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Linksys E1200

Posted on December 6, 2016 by larry

This linksys was easy to work with.  In general Linksys makes it easy unlike Asus. I figured out where to add the serial connector. Here is a close up When I opened it up I surprised at how small the … Continue reading →

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Meetup on MQTT

Posted on December 5, 2016 by larry

Today I had a meetup on MQTT.  I thought it was gonna be boring but it ended up being OK.  We got some demo going and they figured it out. Showed some arduino code too and how it worked.  Surprisingly … Continue reading →

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Messing With Stuff

Posted on December 3, 2016 by larry

Today I took a stab at learning Adobe Premiere Elements.  It is a learning curve for me, but I am motivated.  But had to run some errands mid day. One stop was at Goodwill and another at RePC to grab … Continue reading →

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Shifting My Schedule A Bit

Posted on December 1, 2016 by larry

Today I needed daylight to setup our XMas decorations, but I needed to do it during the day.  So I stopped work an hour early then got some decorations up. Now I am up working on some docs I promised … Continue reading →

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Working With New LCD

Posted on November 30, 2016 by larry

At one of my recent presentations I lost my LCD screen. I finally got time to play with a new one. Got it connected to a DHT11 to display Humidity and Temp, Looks cool. I need to get on this … Continue reading →

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Linux In a VM

Posted on November 29, 2016 by larry

A little disappointed in running Linux in a VM on my new rig. First off it does it doesn’t go full screen. Second audio doesn’t seem to work. But it is MUCH smoother than in the past on my other … Continue reading →

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