Category Archives: Technical

Successful Arduino Meetup

Posted on November 18, 2013 by larry

Dang what a busy Day, Started off with a Skype Meeting with Retrofit Decommission meeting of one of our HPUX servers Weekly Linux Server Engineer Meeting Then the Arduino Meetup The arduino meetup was also a 2 in 1 meeting. … Continue reading →

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Arduino In A Box

Posted on November 16, 2013 by larry

One of the reason I wanted to but Arduino on a breadboard was so I could strip out what I needed it fit it into tight places, here is what I did today with yesterday’s Arduino. I found the box … Continue reading →

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Arduino, Ethernet, and Sensor in a Small Box

Posted on November 15, 2013 by larry

  I am trying to cram a PIR, Arduino and ethernet module into a tiny power box. It looks like it will fit, months ago before I started with tiny ardunio’s I was able to fit an Uno in here. … Continue reading →

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Bad Day On The Workout

Posted on November 13, 2013 by larry

Man, I didn’t have a decent workout today, just pushups and situps. I got home and had some technical things to take care of. The big one was getting my enc28j60 ethernet working with the arduino. I have always used 3.3 … Continue reading →

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Plantar Fasciitis back

Posted on November 9, 2013 by larry

Kind of hurts, having a hard  time getting going. I think I need to take a break today from running. But my son and I did some good work today on drywall.  I really wanted to run some cable in … Continue reading →

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Frys Web Site Down

Posted on November 7, 2013 by larry

  This is interesting to me… First off this is Frys Electronic’s web site where they sell stuff, stuff goes down, but they should have a better 404 page. Another thing is ServerToken was not set to prod, so the … Continue reading →

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Fitbit for a day now

Posted on November 5, 2013 by larry

Been wearing fitbit for a day now, didn’t hit the 10000 steps it was asking for. Still I got in over 6000 as of this post.  Maybe tomorrow I will put in a bit more effort.  I think that is … Continue reading →

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Retrofit and fitbit

Posted on November 4, 2013 by larry

Today I spoke to the retrofit advisor named “Jade” for an hour today. A lot of the stuff she explained makes sense, but one thing you need to do is be motivated to try this. I like the concept of … Continue reading →

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Saved By The Cloud

Posted on November 3, 2013 by larry

I am so glad I sync my photo’s to the cloud, my contacts and email are stored on servers so I am OK with losing all that, apps I can just restore. I will lose some settings though, so I … Continue reading →

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Starting Retrofit Program

Posted on November 1, 2013 by larry

I was supposed to post on this new retrofit program I started to day, but wow I am so tired and beat. Last night I just could not sleep and when I got home it caught up to me. I … Continue reading →

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