Monthly Archives: November 2016

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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ESP8266 New Network

Posted on November 28, 2016 by larry

I got the first ESP8266 talking to the AWS server securely.  Seems pretty simple but in hindsight that was a lot of work. I got the development board working first, then I got a nodeMCU.  Currently it communicates via MQTT. … 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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Thanksgiving 2016

Posted on November 24, 2016 by larry

It was a double celebration today.  But the one I will talk about was Thanksgiving. Great food this year, Turkey came out awesome. Was heartwarming seeing wife and daughters having fun in the kitchen. I played the part of gopher, … Continue reading →

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Pre Thanksgiving Prep 2016

Posted on November 23, 2016 by larry

Like all Wednesdays before Thanksgiving, I had to work, and like all others it was dead in the office, and like the rest, it was pretty busy outside the office. We did some final preparations for Thanksgiving.  Got some final … Continue reading →

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Slowing Down A Bit

Posted on November 22, 2016 by larry

Thank goodness the pace of daily life is slowing a bit.  Been kind of crazy the past few weeks.  Tomorrow looks to be a slow day, then got a 4 day weekend, and I get to work from home Monday … Continue reading →

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Looking At Topic On Meetup

Posted on November 21, 2016 by larry

We had a general open topic today for our meetup.  We spoke about a wide variety of things including something I am allergic to… politics. But there was a desire to log information to a file, so I decided to … Continue reading →

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