I wanted to be able to use iPXE to boot Windows 7 over iscsi, This turned out to be a very very hard project, as the documentation is VERY sparse.
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Category Archives: Embedded
Home Made Smart Meter
I have for awhile been wanting to be able to figure out how much power my meter was using daily, without reading the meter at the same time everyday, I also want to be able to graph my power usage.
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Tor Relay Proxy TL-WR710N
So I took some time on my sunday to hack my TL-WR710N(US) edition, and I had a lot of fun. The first thing I got to do was take it apart! I was able to find the serial headers too, just a little soldering to make it work!
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building a better dock light
Hi all, So I have a house on spirit lake in Iowa, and I have to admit I have a problem. I needed a decent way to control the dock lights. I needed it to work over the internet and I needed it to have an app…. Since my lake house has media com for internet a NAT wouldn’t be sufficient.
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Netflix in the USA, but acting like canada
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So I found out about this thing called Hola the other day that allowed me to use my computer to connect to a vpn and appear from Canada, or the U.K. What I thought was interesting was the movie choices, it was a whole different movie selection. Continue reading
Xbee sending Maxbotix Proximity Sensor
I finally had some time at work to finish testing the Maxbotix sensor hooked to an Arduino and finally to a Xbee. This tasked turned out to be simple with one hiccup.
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Raspberry pi ADC mcp3008
I finally had time to sit down and finish soldering up the board to take the thermisistor from analog to digital, so I can use it in my raspberry pi. I used the mcp3008 this chip is great it has inputs for up to 8 other analog devices, SWEET, I plan on using that!!
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Arduino Amperage Sensor
So I think the thing that excited me the most about getting into making circuits was trying to get a handle of the things all around me, trying to grasp what is accepted and start to understand it. This for me, started with the essentials, bills that no matter how much money or who you knew you had to pay, Like for example electricity.
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Meat Temp probe to Arduino
So I bought a new Smoke Hollow smoker, I switched from the Bradley to this smoker, since my Bradley quit working, and it was quite a bit of $$ to replace it, Also the Bradley required custom bisquettes, and I was ready to try some different woods (like Jack Daniels)!
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Arduino Read Serial Input
Here I am again, talking about another thing I really struggled with, reading an input from the serial on the Arduino. I am using a 2560 hooked to my Raspberry Pi on Serial1, you might have an Uno or something, the directions are probably similar, but you only get the single shared serial port.
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