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Ducky One 2 – Hot Tips
I recently acquired a tiny hipster mechanical keyboard, the “Ducky one 2 Mini RGB”, a “60% mechanical keyboard” (look it up). After spending a couple hours working out the kinks, I am hereby documenting my findings so I can reference … Continue reading
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Booting Raspberry Pi Off USB
I like Rasperry Pi’s, but they have one glaring problem: There is no way to shut them down. I run all of mine as servers, so if I can’t access them over the network you can’t press a button on … Continue reading
LEDs – Round 4 – Reading Lamp MkII Assembly
Alright, I’m back. I’m going to power through on a couple posts to get caught up. I finished the MkII lamp. I designed a new case and assembled it all. Here are some pictures. So this project turned out really … Continue reading
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LEDs – Round 3 – Reading Lamp
I bought an Ikea reading light several years ago to use for reading in bed before going to sleep. It was brought to my attention that it was SUPER, UNNECESSARILY bright for a pre-bed reading light. Which I can’t say … Continue reading
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Enabling SSH on Rasberry Pi
I am a big fan of Raspberry Pi’s. For a while I attempted to use them as network monitoring servers, but the older versions of the board were not very stable and if they had a power hiccup it would … Continue reading
Power-only MicroUSB Cable
(Before we get started, a QUICK NOTE: A founding tenet of this blog is to put out content quickly, not put out monster posts sporadically. As such, I will not be adding things like sources, citations, formatting and well-lit pictures.) … Continue reading
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LEDs – Round 2
So here’s a cool tip I figured out after using what I discussed the previous post: A 9V battery can power three of the LEDs we discussed in the previous post without any additional components. Just wire them together in … Continue reading
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A Primer on LEDs
CAVEAT: Electronics and electrical theory are not my strong suit, and this was written for mostly my own benefit, so if I am wrong please let me know. ALSO: All the information for this post was taken from the Adafruit … Continue reading
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This is probably my fifth attempt at operating a blog, and it’s been a while since my last attempt. Are we still calling them blogs? During my previous attempt I spent a quarter of the time actually writing content, a … Continue reading
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