Author Archives: admin

Using GCE’s new free-tier micro VPS for fun and profit

Posted on April 23, 2017 by admin

Google’s Cloud Engine product, GCE allows developers a couple hundred dollars worth of credits, but more importantly, they’ve setup an “always free” tier VPS, the f1-micro (1 vCPU, 0.6 GB memory). Now, there’s not a whole lot you can do with … Continue reading →

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Installing Golang (go) on the Raspberry Pi 3

Posted on October 21, 2016 by admin

Installing Go or Golang on your Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Continue reading →

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How to setup a Ruby on Rails environment in Windows

Posted on November 8, 2015 by admin

I’ve recently had to setup a couple of RoR dev environments/toolchains in Windows. I suggest not doing this wholly inside windows, but you can still orchestrate the whole process from inside windows. Obviously OSX is a much more clean way … Continue reading →

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More microcontrollers, ESP8266, Raspberry Pi A+

Posted on September 14, 2015 by admin

I have been working on electronics a bit more, I thought I would write up what I have been working on. Most recently I have been working with NodeMCU on the ESP8266. The goal is to have a “captive wlan” … Continue reading →

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Tinkering with Microcontrollers, Arduino + Beaglebone, frustrations

Posted on November 22, 2014 by admin

Two primary lessons I’ve learned Don’t work on the wiring aspect of electronics past 1am or so. The chances of you shorting something out approach 100% as you get closer to 3am Servos have more torque than you think and … Continue reading →

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Converting Bitnami VMDK to Hyper-V VHDX files

Posted on September 28, 2014 by admin

Converting Bitnami VMWare VMDK stack files to Hyper-V VHDX hard disk image files using powershell and Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter. Continue reading →

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Bicycles and Cats, and why bicycles self-steer themselves (and cats always land on their feet)

Posted on April 12, 2014 by admin

I’m curious, how does stem length impact steering feel? I realize that steering feel is almost 100% impacted by trail (how far the contact patch is behind the line of the head tube) but for example, on my project bike, … Continue reading →

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NIC Teaming on Windows 8.1 (really)

Posted on March 1, 2014 by admin

So there is a way to get NIC Teaming to work in Windows 8.1. WS2012 R2 has dead-easy way to team any two nics (effectively giving you 2 gigabit eithernet if the other end also has at least 2 gigabit … Continue reading →

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Intel’s Galileo Ardunio and Powershell

Posted on February 2, 2014 by admin

Intel’s Galileo is a pretty neat piece of kit. However it won’t always connect on the same COM port (typically COM3 or COM4). The only way the tutorials tell you to check this is via a menu deep inside the … Continue reading →

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