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Junk Bin Antenna Tuner 17 Dec 2012 | 10:47 am
Threw together a junk bin L network antenna tuner. The inductor is wound with solid core 12 gauge wire. The variable capacitor was scrapped out of an old (non working and not worth anything) tube AM r...
Mineserv: Automatic Start/Stop Perl Init Script 16 Dec 2011 | 10:34 pm
I was getting tired of having to manually start and stop my Minecraft server whenever the server rebooted and I couldn't make backups without manually disabling level saving first. I wasn't too happy ...
A Parser for GNUSim8085 Assembler Listings 15 Feb 2011 | 08:29 pm
Update: I am happy to announce that this functionality based off of my code will be added to GNUSim8085 in version 1.3.8. I've been building an 8 bit microcomputer (still a work in progress) around t...
Simple AM Transmitter and Receiver 10 May 2010 | 12:14 pm
Update: I actually made a math error as I did not know what I was doing at the time. I actually inadvertently made a 7 MHz circuit instead of a 50 MHz circuit so I have changed the title but kept the...
Digital Clock - 7490 Decade Counters and a Hacked Quartz Clock 2 Apr 2010 | 06:38 pm
No microcontrollers needed here! I started playing with some 7490 decade counters and decided to build a digital clock. The first trick was getting an accurate 1 second time base. There are a few opti...
Time Delayed Door Alarm 31 Jan 2010 | 12:23 pm
My cat likes to open the front door if we don't latch it properly, which is often. Waking up to a cold house sucks! I designed a time delayed alarm with a couple of 555 timers, if the door is open for...
Tunnel Firefox through SSH with a SOCKS Proxy 25 Nov 2009 | 05:32 pm
You should always be careful when connecting to a public WiFi connection, you don't want to end up like these poor saps at the Defcon convention. I'm sure you have found yourself in a situation where...
Set up a free Dynamic DNS for your home Ubuntu server. 8 Nov 2009 | 11:05 pm
This tutorial assumes you are using Debian based linux, such as ubuntu, and you have a server set up with root privileges on a home connection. Update: Your router might already have Dynamic DNS func...
Early 80's Pirate Computers 2 Jul 2009 | 12:30 pm
Pete Perkins, an early pioneer of pirate hardware. He created, improved, and sold copies of Apple and IBM computers. A much simpler time for computers indeed. Core Duo's are great but when it comes to...
Internet Controled Car v2 Parallel Port 28 Mar 2009 | 04:09 pm
My first version of the Internet Controled Car used a BASIC stamp to handle serial communication. This was a mundane task for a complex and expensive little microchip This new version uses a parallel...
