tech

Aug 20 2021

FitBit

Well,

Yesterday the wife and I decided to switch from our FitBits to Apple Watches. Mostly because both our FitBits died in under a year and that seems to happen more often than not now. Just not worth the hassle…..

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Apr 6 2021

3D Printing

Still loving my Ender 3, although at this point it has been highly modified. I did find one issue, that is 100% my fault. I had the current for the stepper motors turned up way too high so it was overheating the motors and causing the gantry to drop during prints. Once I fixed that issue it is back to printing well. I still need to add some thermal compound between the heartbreak & heatsink I swapped to (a Mellow NF Smart CR10) but given my normal printing temps it isn’t too bad.

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Jan 20 2021

3D Printing

I got a new 3D printer for Christmas. It’s a standard Ender 3 and I’m loving it. Sure and Ender 3 Pro or Ender 3 V2 would be better, but so far I’ve had next to no issues with it.

I find it strangely therapeutic watching it print.

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Jul 16 2020

Bluetooth

Well, the Roav Smart Charger F2 was a bust, as was the F3.  They worked fine for streaming music, but not for calls.  The next attempt is the Mpow Pro Trucker Bluetooth Headset.  Hopefully, it works well.  Won’t be able to stream music but at least I’ll be able to talk while driving.

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Jul 7 2020

More Car Stuff

I just got a Roav SmartCharge F2 for my car since a mounting kit for the Bluetooth stereo I have is a nice $200 (damn Driver Information Center built into the factory radio).  Although not perfect, it does work and at least in my car people can hear me fine talking over it so that is nice.  The main complaint I have is that the audio quality isn’t perfect, but it does fine for what I need so I’m happy with it.

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Nov 14 2019

Disney+

Wife and I subscribed to Disney+ yesterday. For the kiddos of course…..

So today I plan to start watching the Marvel movies in chronological order. I’ll use strikethrough when I’m done watching one.

  • Captain America: The First Avenger (takes place during WWII)
  • Captain Marvel (takes place in 1995)
  • Iron Man (takes place in 2010)
  • Iron Man 2 (takes place after Iron Man)
  • The Incredible Hulk (time unspecified, pre-Avengers)
  • Thor (time unspecified, pre-Avengers)
  • The Avengers (takes place in 2012)
  • Iron Man 3 (takes place six months after The Avengers)
  • Thor: Dark World (post-Avengers, pre-Ultron)
  • Captain America: Winter Soldier (post-Avengers, pre-Ultron)
  • Guardians of the Galaxy (sometime in 2014)
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (after Guardians)
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron (takes place in 2015)
  • Ant-Man (takes place in 2015)
  • Captain America: Civil War (post-Ultron, pre-Infinity War)
  • Spider-Man: Homecoming (post-Civil War, pre-Infinity War)
  • Doctor Strange (takes place in 2016)
  • Black Panther (takes place in 2017)
  • Thor: Ragnarok (post-Ultron, pre-Infinity War)
  • Avengers: Infinity War (takes place in 2017)
  • Ant-Man and The Wasp (ambiguous, but fits nicely between IW and Endgame)
  • Avengers: Endgame (starts in 2017, finishes in 2022)
  • Spider-Man: Far From Home (post-Endgame)

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Jul 29 2019

Home server update

Just a quick update on my home server.  I finally got a chance to try out the replacement KCMA-D8 board I got.  Sadly it does not have working video.  Thankfully the seller is shipping me another one.  I also talked to my wife and she agrees that we can mount it on the wall in the mechanical room to reduce the temperature in the crawlspace under the stairs.  While not an ideal location, it is better than where it sites now since the mechanical room is always open (litter boxes for the cats).  I am hoping it won’t get too hot in there in the winter with the server, the water heater & the furnace in there.

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Jul 29 2019

Temperature & Humidity Sensors

I’m planning on starting to make some 433MHz temperature & humidity sensors based on this Instructable.  I will also have to build a programmer, based on this Instructable.

Parts list for the programmer (Amazon works best for me) is as follows.

The parts list for the sensors is as follows

As you can see, I made some substitutes to work with what I can find on Amazon but for the most part it is the same component.s

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Jul 13 2019

Home server

Well,

Last night I moved my home server from an old crappy tower case to a Rosewill RSV-L4500 4U rackmount case.  No rack to put it in so it sits on its side but oh well.  So much room in it, plenty of room for my ASUS KCMA-D8 motherboard.  Will be really nice when I get the replacement board so I can use both CPU sockets and have 16 true cores and hopefully 128GB of RAM.  If not, I’ll have either 64GB (like I do now) or 96GB of RAM.  Both of which are a huge improvement over the 24GB I had before.

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Jun 19 2019

funtoo Linux

I’ve decided that I really have no reason to have Windows on my laptop since I don’t use it all that often so tonight I’m going to embark on installing funtoo Linux on it.  It will most definitely be an interesting time but given the age of my laptop shouldn’t have to many surprises.

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