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Aiden Ding Dong Ditcher
I sent Aiden outside today because he was being too loud. This is what he did.
Canonball Speed Sensors
A customer wanted to use industrial photo eye sensors with a piece of lab equipment to measure the speed of a projectile shot out of a air cannon. I assembled a small box with the parts needed to power it … Continue reading
Batch Resize Pictures Using Linux Convert Utility
A quick and simple way to resize a folder full of pictures is to issue the following command on a Linux computer: $ for file in *.jpg; do convert $file -resize 25% rz-$file; done
WeatherCam online
I hooked up an old analog camera I had laying around (one of the 15!) to an Axis 2400+ video server I bought off of ebay for $40. A little script that runs every minute and copies a picture from … Continue reading
Kodi, Sling, Plex, MythTV Entertainment Options
In a more-complicated-than-need-be step to canceling our satellite TV service, I installed MythTV backend and Plex server on an old computer that was sitting around. I started by installing mythbuntu because I’m already comfortable with using Ubuntu. MythTV uses the inexpensive … Continue reading
Posted in Projects, Technology
Tagged Amazon Fire Stick, cut the cord, Kodi, MythTV, Netflix, Plex, Sling TV, TV, Ubuntu
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Gardening and Permaculture posts at GalliStead.com
I created a new website GalliStead.com where I’ll make all future posts about gardening, permaculture, and aquaponics related projects and updates at our house. I hope to get fencing put in and have a few sheep or goats too. So … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Links, Permaculture
Tagged aquaponics, GalliStead, Gardening, link, permaculture, website
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Long Range Vehicle Sensor Using Data Radios
Here is another fun project I just finished up. My client wanted to be able to know if a vehicle (a train actually) is coming from a mile away. We used a Banner radar sensor in retroreflective mode, a Banner … Continue reading
Full Size Remote Control Boat
Here is a fun project I did for a client that needed a way to safely crash a boat for a test. I used an inexpensive model RC transmitter and receiver, two robotics motor controllers, a linear actuator, a DC … Continue reading
