Category Archives: Technical

Redid My Garage Door Model

Posted on February 20, 2016 by larry

I rebuild my garage door model in to something a bit more robust.  I don’t have pictures yet, but hope to post some up tomorrow. Reason I don’t have time is I am headed up to Canada for a quick … Continue reading →

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New Linux Vulnerability

Posted on February 17, 2016 by larry

So there is this vulnerability announced earlier this week for Linux machines.  It affects GLIBC 2.9 and higher. Pretty nasty one if it were ever weaponized.  I remember a time when you had to open an attachment to get infected. … Continue reading →

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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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