Monthly Archives: May 2018

End of School Year Stuff

Posted on May 11, 2018 by larry

That time of year Both daughters fighting for a spot in districts and son is doing his track stuff. Was pretty busy today, seems like the school schedules all these things at the same time.

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Annual Doctor Checkup

Posted on May 10, 2018 by larry

Went to doctor today, surprised at what she said, I was OK health wise other than weight. So need to lose weight, looking at my options. Give it another 2 months  

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Arduino Book

Posted on May 9, 2018 by larry

Today purchased an Arduino Book Learn Electronics with Arduino: An Illustrated Beginner’s Guide to Physical Computing Hoping it will lead to better documentation for me On a side note, something weird happened to my vision today, like there was flashing, … Continue reading →

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Decent Sleep But Tired

Posted on May 8, 2018 by larry

Still tired even after a decent sleep today. Maybe it was not long enough, maybe something else is going on, but I feel beat. Maybe another good night of sleep will do it.  

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Learning Things At Meetup

Posted on May 7, 2018 by larry

Had another meetup today couple cool things I learned Someone told me about a deck planner, not really maker related but interesting https://www.strongtie.com/products/go/software/deckplanner We are interested in getting in to LoRaWan https://frightanic.com/iot/build-a-lorawan-gateway-for-the-things-network/ We also had ideas on providing estimates on … Continue reading →

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Wasted Day

Posted on May 6, 2018 by larry

Drove up North the get some shrimp… when we got there it was sold out, looks like minutes before we got there. What a bummer and a waste of a day. Next week we will try again, this time as … Continue reading →

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Upgrading Arduino

Posted on May 5, 2018 by larry

Today I embarked on upgrading my Arduino.  The IDE, libs, and ESP8266 compiler. There were some pain points, but there was one really painful one, a simple cable was bad. In the end it look like ok. Also I worked … Continue reading →

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Network in a Box ver 3

Posted on May 4, 2018 by larry

I coworker AJ recommended this router GL.iNet GL-AR150 Mini Travel Router This will be the basis of version 3 of my portable network. Here is the prior one, version 2 And an even older one version 1 Still will have … Continue reading →

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Starting New Docs

Posted on May 3, 2018 by larry

Starting the work of building a new training set. There is so much to do I don’t even know where to start. I think the first thing to do is outline the workbook.

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Fresh Set of 12 months

Posted on May 2, 2018 by larry

Weird, I feel like it is a new year after Linuxfest. Got a lot of time to get my next set of things going. I started a list of challenges, will not post them here, keeping them close to the … Continue reading →

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