Chaotic Ramblings
For several years I have wanted to setup a Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution. My thinking at the time was to have a place for local backups, and ease of filesharing amongst devices. There are many solutions available for someone looking to setup a NAS. So much so that I found myself paralyzed by choice. Do you build your own, and if so should it be some Xeon monster or something more modest?…
This post details the process I went through to setup and configure VICE (the VersatIle Commodore Emulator) on the Pocket CHIP to run defMON. While my end goal here is to be able to run defMON from the homepage launcher of the Pocket CHIP, you can follow this setup process (ignoring the defMON stuff) to have a working Commodore emulator. This will allow you to run any number of C64 games,…
The LimeSDR Mini is a newer product from the MyriadRF line of SDRs. Its ability to both transmit and receive, decent bandwidth, small form factor, and a reasonable price tag make it a very attractive device for experimentation. Likely, one of the first things a radio hobbiest will want to do with this device is hook up an antenna, fire up Gqrx, and tune around. Recently I attempted just this, but…
Recently I have turned my attention back to ADS-B. I realized it is an excellent source for a dynamic near-realtime dataset for use as sample data in some other side projects. The data itself is interesting and fun to visualize, and it's relatively easy to stand up a recieveing station that is always on. So I pulled out an SBC (Odroid XU3) and an old generic RTL-SDR stick I had lying around, and…
My nephews are fascinated with fidgit spinners. They each own several and always have one on hand, proudly showing off the various trick
In my daily work I use a CLI tool called todo.txt coupled with an add-on called <a href="https://github
In the Spring of 2017 I attended the Dayton Hamvention . While browsing through piles of random elect
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