Monthly Archives: December 2015

Fried Pi

Posted on December 11, 2015 by larry

Today I think I fried my first Raspberry Pi. Not sure if it is truly dead because the Polyfuse may reset and my Pi may still be good. Also been have challenges building another boot USB.  I usually set the … Continue reading →

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Revisit My Inventory

Posted on December 10, 2015 by larry

I think every year end I should evaluate my inventory of stuff. I went through my stuff and saw a bunch of things I probably cannot sell. Also I am looking at the stuff that does, I am short on … Continue reading →

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Christmas Decorations Up

Posted on December 9, 2015 by larry

Cleaning has commenced, house looks good.  A lot of stuff displaced though.  It is a challenge to get my development environment up. Gonna clean up more tomorrow and put a few more lights up.    

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Intellectually Challenging Day At Work

Posted on December 8, 2015 by larry

Today I didn’t mind staying at work a little longer than usual. I was helping troubleshoot an issue with a proxy server.  It was cool digging into wireshark and reading some deep deep stuff. Slowly got our decorations up.   … Continue reading →

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Soldered Cap on NRF radio

Posted on December 7, 2015 by larry

    After prematurely claiming victory, I am reluctant to say that this is the final fix, but it is pretty stable.     There seems to be 3 things needed fixing in order for me to reach this point, … Continue reading →

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Frustrating NRF24L01 radio

Posted on December 6, 2015 by larry

Not sure why I am having so much trouble with this NRF radio. I am going to try another one, maybe it is just a bad unit. The one connected to the raspberry pi is solid.  If I still keep … Continue reading →

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It was Power

Posted on December 5, 2015 by larry

So yesterday I struggled to get the NRF23L01 running, I finally figured it out, it was power. Seems like a lot of my issues have to do with power.  I think I am going to build myself a circuit that … Continue reading →

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Arduino Side of NRF

Posted on December 4, 2015 by larry

Last night after I posted in my blog, I finished the Arduino Side of my NRF2401 project. I tried to get the radio up first but am having trouble. I got the two buttons using a pulldown resistor, the IR … Continue reading →

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2000th Post

Posted on December 3, 2015 by larry

Cool, today marks my 2000th post on this blog.  That is amazing. I got the NRF24L01+ working on a Raspberry Pi 2.  Finally. I guess if I put my mind to it I could have had it done sooner. I … Continue reading →

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Moving on to NodeMCU

Posted on December 2, 2015 by larry

With the price of a NodeMCU hitting about $10, I think I am going to use that as my device of choice when doing wifi projects. I certainly will still use an Arduino, or an ESP8266, but the nodemcu is … Continue reading →

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