Category Archives: Technical

Slowly Getting Off Of DSL

Posted on February 15, 2016 by larry

Site by site, I been moving my stuff off of my DSL line. Today I am struggling with DNS, something on my network is not cooperating. Still didn’t run.  I should tomorrow.  Weather is lousy.

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Hard to Write a Letter

Posted on February 8, 2016 by larry

An honest to goodness letter written with a pen. I wanted to thank someone with a letter. It was so hard to just find the paper and envelopes proper for a handwritten letter. My hand writing is horrible. I used … Continue reading →

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SSD Recovery

Posted on February 6, 2016 by larry

Spent most of the night from about midnight to 6AM trying to recover data from a failed SSD, short answer, you can’t. Once that was determined we set off that afternoon setting up onedrive and connecting our devices. The rule … Continue reading →

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Arduino Game Built

Posted on January 30, 2016 by larry

Finally got my arduino game going. It is supposed to be a board game but there is no board yet. It will come though.  Most of the electronics is done.

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Arduino Board Game

Posted on January 29, 2016 by larry

I got two days to come up with something to draw kids in to the STEM world. I was thinking a simple board game, monopoly like that you race across the board to the finish line.  Arduino will provide  Random … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi Relay

Posted on January 27, 2016 by larry

Nearly four years ago (short by a month) I got an arduino to locally turn a relay on and off for a power strip. http://www.apolonio.com/blog/?p=1890 I have revisited that project again using a Raspberry Pi 2. It required a lot … Continue reading →

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Meeting with KCLS

Posted on January 25, 2016 by larry

Today I met with an employee with KCLS on how we can bring STEM to kids. First I need to think of a simple display to captivate kids.  I then need to come up with a long term plan to … Continue reading →

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Exhibit Box 2016

Posted on January 24, 2016 by larry

Here is the new box I have for 2016 exhibits.  Hopefully there will be many exhibits this year. Still a lot more to work on but it looks pretty good.  I am happy with it so far. From left to … Continue reading →

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More Tech

Posted on January 23, 2016 by larry

Today I got my new exhibit setup, still got some things to work on.  Running out of time though. Been working on my VOIP project too, I found my old PAP2 and I think I can use it for a … Continue reading →

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Getting In To VOIP

Posted on January 22, 2016 by larry

Was a really interesting tech day.  First I got in to VOIP and SIP.  I even spun up an asterisk server, or at least tried to. Then later in the day I had issues with PDF and trying to get … Continue reading →

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