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This is how we made coffee before. It was, let's just say . . . not fun.
Being banished from the house out to my former shop building required a bit of adjustment. In my old office, now the "adult guest room" which is …
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Confronted with a QR Code on a Windows desktop and a desire to get that text without using a phone camera, what do you do?
"Scan this QR Code with your device." Obviously the developer thinks I want the code's information on my …
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My new shop ceiling fan. Doing what a fan is supposed to do. Fanning.
One of my favorite things is making a thing to meet a need out of stuff I already have. The fact that I do this time …
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I recently did a four-day trip to South Georgia and back. Spent three nights in The Bug. It was wonderful.
We have been very fortunate thus far. Our few real uses of The Bug have been pretty bug-free. Insects have pretty much left us alone. But …
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We traveled to Mississippi and did an overnighter at a KOA campground 150 miles away. It was a good test of The Bug's systems.
This project has FINALLY reached its end. We just wrapped up a 300 mile round-trip overnight shakedown test of The Bug …
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Three good things: red, blue and yellow.
What? You may recall I only recently wrote about the Return of Ham with glowing terms of endearment. And now I'm saying it's a good thing to be …
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Image: This was purchased to replace a very old AA battery powered cordless trimmer.
. . . or so they say. But sometimes you don't even get that.
My old Wahl AA battery powered beard and mustache trimmer was on its last leg. It had endured leaky …
read moreIf I put the gallery at the top of a post, it got included in the post summary.
There were a few times when posts with galleries of images that were also the 'index.html' post (the featured post) had a problem. Their gallery would have …
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I just burned up two whole days trying to solve a problem caused by an invisible non-entity.
It was a space. Well, two spaces to be precise, one at the end of each account password.
We recently …
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Turning this schematic into functioning hardware is the goal of this exercise.
Sometimes you just need one thing done. This was one of those times.
This is a quick and not-too-dirty tool that does one job well.
The Pi Pico makes it pretty simple and cheap. MicroPython and the IR …
read moreThis article was brought here after 4 years at Hack-a-day.io.
The Monstrosity is this 4x4 frame which allows me to build the workstation I need without marring or drilling any holes into the walls of our spare bedroom.
As you can see, there are 3 computers and six displays …
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