Disaster, Message Box Face Broke

Posted on January 26, 2025 by larry

Of all things to happen, I was about to finish putting together the faceplate for the production Message board plus when the faceplate slid off the table.

When it landed on the floor, the four standoffs holding the LCD display sheared off.

The only saving grace it was the 3d print face, and I can simply reprint a new one.

Won’t be done till tomorrow. So so close to calling it complete though.

On the new Last Man project, I think I figured out the SMS problem, also found some tips online and a daemon to use.

Weight: 337.6

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On to the next phase

Posted on January 25, 2025 by larry

Regarding my nagios pi box, got all the parts, I can get it a least all together to do logic testing.

Got nagios running today, and will get the phone thing working soon too. Maybe tomorrow.

That is not all I completed today, got the new 3d printer enclosure, yes it does make a difference.

Notice the difference.

Cleaned up a bit, but did not finish. Tomorrow going to do more cleaning but I also want to finish my message box plus dev.

Weight: 336.4

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Got Major Pieces

Posted on January 24, 2025 by larry

Almost got all the pieces, I know I got all the major components.

The relay should be coming in soon, which would complete all the electronic components. I may opt for a Voltage Regulator.

Going to play with the POTS side of things tomorrow.

Then I need the GPIO and I2C stuff going.

Should have decent functionality before weekends over.

Speaking of functionality, I did get the SMS going with the LTE device.

Weight: 334.8

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LTE Board

Posted on January 23, 2025 by larry

Got my LTE board and installed in on my Pi

Kind of cool, couple things, I had to connect the USB connection to make both the tty and the NIC appear.

I do not intend to send out traffic out of the LTE other than SMS messages.

I used minicom on /dev/ttyACM0 and was able to send an SMS message

But as of this post, I am not sure what I did, I was not able to send another message.

Weight: 332.8

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Parts Coming In Quick

Posted on January 22, 2025 by larry

So this is the last man standing project.

Subject to change of course.

I have all the major parts in that drawing except for the LTE unit. That is expected to come in tomorrow.

I could theoretically have this functional by Monday.

Weight:

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Too Many Projects

Posted on January 21, 2025 by larry

Adding another project to my list of things I am working on. It was a Raspberry Pi based monitoring, that will be the last host standing in the event of a power outage.

Today was the first time installing Rocky 9 on a Raspberry Pi 4. Amazingly it worked. I can now use the commands I am familiar with to manage it. I few ansible scripts did not even need to be tweaked.

Also got a 4 channel relay going as well. Did some work in the cleaned up garage.

Printed a case for my message box project as well.

Weight: 334.4

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Place Clean Enough

Posted on January 20, 2025 by larry

Wow, got a lot of things in place. I would say our home is in a good place, not really clean, but functional again.

I feel like taking another week off to organize the house more. So much progress.

My home office needs some work though.

Weight: 335.6

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Basement Done Somewhat

Posted on January 19, 2025 by larry

Yesterday worked upstairs, I would have continued upstairs today but my daughter works from home tomorrow so I needed to get some stuff cleaned up downstairs.

Unfortunately, I just got stuff out of the way, did not do a true cleaning.

Yeah, meds making me heavy, relief in sight though.

Weight: 338.2

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Garage Getting There

Posted on January 18, 2025 by larry

Been doing a lot of maker stuff lately, as fun as it is, it creates a mess. This weekend I was going to focus on getting areas prepared so I can get to a point where I can build my stuff in the garage.

With the new printer coming, I need space. Furthermore, I made a deal with my wife to make space. So I made space.

Signficant progress was made in the garage today, but we still got to hit the basement where the current printer is. Tomorrow will be the basement, and Monday will be more garage.

Speaking of new printer, it is worrisome that a new firmware will be changing the way Bambu printers work. Hope it is not another Cricut.

Speaking of cricut, I am sad that my Lunakoa drink coaster cracked today.

Speaking of things breaking, had a flat Friday Morning and found out late Friday night. This morning I got it fixed, I thought it was a simple patch, damage was bad enough to require new tire. With AWD, you need to replace two.

Anyway, day was productive at least.

Weight: 335.8

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Gonna Be A Busy Weekend

Posted on January 17, 2025 by larry

Going to sleep early, already kind of late for when I wanted to go to bed.

What is worse is that I need sleep and I am up.

Hitting some quick pushups and situps before a long day tomorrow.

Weight: 336.4

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