Project: Backless PC
If you are anything like me, you are constantly reaching behind your computer to unplug and replug things. I solved my problem by making a case with everything on the front. As a bonus, I put a...
View ArticleIDE-LED
This project has been on my mind for a few years now, and has been a long time coming. If you know me, you could probably just guess the amount of shit that I have saved up on my desktop …Read more »
View ArticlePutting a 3.5 inch hard drive in a Laptop
I have had a bunch of times when you need to use a hard drive designed for a Laptop in a desktop system, say for formatting, or copying massive amounts of files. Laptop drives are by spec. 2.5inch...
View ArticleSimple MIDI in cable
How to make a SUPER simple MIDI cable to send data to your joystick / MIDI port. I had a M-Audio USB uno, which worked great on my ghetto keyboard, but on my newer setup, it would constantly dump...
View ArticleSeagate external drive fixed
Years ago I bought two 160GB Seagate external drives, then at some point I didn’t double check which power converter I was grabbing and the little 12vDC drive got a nice 18vDC over-voltage and it blew...
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Hacking USB into an Alfa AP121 router
While checking out all the awesome things you can do with a Fon Wifi Pineapple, I thought it would be fun to grab a newer router, capable of running Pineapple Mark-IV. I found what I thought was a...
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Grbl CNC USB to TB6560 Interface using Arduino
I’ve had a CNC mill for a few years now, and while many homemade CNC mills use EasyDriver or Pololu, mine came with a sturdy, generic TB6560 controller board. For those unfamiliar, boards like this are...
View ArticleRaspbian slow SSH fix
I had been noticing that SSH and rsync were unusually slow to connect on my Raspberry Pi running Raspbian. I had initially assumed it was due to the small CPU, but after doing some searching around, I...
View ArticleConfigure git to ignore a range of code
I had been asked to recompile a VPAID ActionScript SWF with a minor change to the code, but I had a lot of stuff lingering in my build I would like to temporarily disable, by commenting out, then only...
View ArticleBenchmarking Node.js, Express, Hapi and Koa
As a software engineer for a company that generates analytics for advertisements, one technology that we leverage heavily is Node.js, which serves as a collection service for incoming status events...
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