Category Archives: New Toys

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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New Power Supply

Posted on November 27, 2016 by larry

On Friday I got the new Video Card for my Rig,  yesterday I got a new laserjet printer (I didn’t mention it in my blog), today I got the power supply.  I purchased it, but doing some research now.  It … Continue reading →

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Love A Technical Challenge

Posted on November 26, 2016 by larry

That was fun, I just spent a couple of hours trying to debrick a $5 router I just purchased. It wasn’t to fix it, it was the challenge.  I purchased another WRT160N from RePC.  It was just $5.   I … Continue reading →

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Black Friday 2016

Posted on November 25, 2016 by larry

Got up early and did do some shopping today.  Got a new video card, but one thing that interested me was at Goodwill, I managed to find another WRT160N V.1 router.  With it, I was able to build a new … Continue reading →

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Multiple Motion Sensor Platform

Posted on November 9, 2016 by larry

Finally got this part of my home monitoring done.  This is the multiple motion sensor platform. Got some initial code to work, it is on the network but does nothing at the moment. Here is the bare part without the … Continue reading →

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End Daylight Savings 2016

Posted on November 6, 2016 by larry

Daylight savings ended today and we “Fall Back” and added an hour to our day. So it will be about 18 weeks before we “Spring Forward” This is where I start training again.  I want to try and get to … Continue reading →

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Stable System

Posted on October 26, 2016 by larry

I rebuilt my new rig to Windows 7.  I wanted to build it on an m sata disk, but I installed it on a 120GB disk for now, eventually I would like to get it on a 250GB MSata disk … Continue reading →

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Trying To Get Windows 10

Posted on October 25, 2016 by larry

I don’t want to pay full retail for Windows 10.  I would rather stay on Windows 7 than go to Windows 10 by paying full price.  Heck I would install Windows 8 before paying full price for Windows 10. But … Continue reading →

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