Shed Building
I recently wanted to add a shed to our backyard. We were going to take the easy route and get a Tuff Shed from Lowes and have it all installed and built for us, but our HOA is a little restrictive and denies any sheds that are over 6′ tall (a weird restriction, maybe so…
Raspberry Pi Weather Station Mk2
Back in 2015 I built a Raspberry Pi Weather Station based off a version I saw a Professor do for Students on the Raspberry Pi site. I tried to build as many parts by hand and it is was one of my first serious forays into the Pi world. I even wrote an Instructable about…
Adventures in PCB Burning
In some of the projects I’ve been working on I’ve had to design a basic to intermediate circuit to control the electronic components of the project (typically a bunch of LEDs, which you don’t want to use a Raspberry Pi for because the resulting current of multiple LEDs will be too much for the board,…
What’s in the Box?! Inventory of my Sparkfun Dumpster Dive
Sparkfun does an inventory clean-out/Dumpster Dive event once per year, it’s like Christmas for the Maker. They come in two variants, a 1.5lb box and 0.5lb box, and sell out pretty quickly. This was my first year but I’m a fan of the various Sparkfun contests and “unique” events they hold so I figured this…
Semi-static Website Hosting in AWS S3 Buckets: SanAngeloSheep.info
Amazon Web Service’s S3 object storage is a fantastically easy and robust way to host a simple website. The only catch is that it’s an object storage so you can’t use any server side scripting like php or python; Simple object storage also means you can’t use any databases either so your data must reside…
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Using Monit to Monitor and Restart a Python Script
This is the first follow-up to my post about my Raspberry Pi Fish Tank sensor, I have a python script for reading the water temperature from the sensor and recording it to a Postgres DB hosted on another server. The script works pretty well and seems to handle any errors ok, but I wanted the […]
Finished Project: Scrappy Science Caddy – First Hackster.io Project
After a long delay I finally finished a new project,…
Project: Data Box – Wiring an IDE Connector for GPIO
This past weekend I continued working on my Data Acquisition…
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Linux Tips I Wish I Knew Long Ago: $_
This is one I constantly forget, but $_ in a bash shell (and other languages like Perl and I know it’s in Windows Powershell but may have a different usage) is a special parameter, it gives the last argument to the previous command. This comes in handy all the time when editing and executing on […]
Project: Data Box – Reusing Motherboard Standoffs for Mounts
In this project I’m making a data acquisition box using a Raspberry Pi, just something to take inputs then log and plot them. An idea occurred to me to reuse motherboard standoffs as a way to attach the top and front face allowing them to be attached and detached frequently. I had to use two different hole sizes, […]
Thoughts from the SXSW Partner Sessions
I was lucky enough to attend some of the Partner Programming Sessions during SXSW on Monday 3/14/2016 and Tuesday 3/15/2016 and these are a collection of thoughts/topics/points that I found interesting. Monday – 3/14/2016 Swipe Right: Get Intiamte with Implantable Devices, Biometric Tattoos and Biosurvellance There is mountains of data out there. Drilling companies will […]
Linux Tips I Wish I Knew Long Ago: tmux
tmux is a terminal multiplexer. What does that mean? It means you can essentially start different “sessions” in the terminal and switch between them, and they continue to run in the background. It also means you can detach a session and reattach it on a different terminal, which is awesome. I use this feature all […]
Project: Jellyfish LED Build Status
I’m trying something a little different. Typically I’ll work on a project, it’ll take a bunch of time, and only when it’s completed will I post all the photos and do a write-up (sometimes rushed or shortened). Now, I’m going to make posts as I hit milestones or complete certain key aspects of the project. […]