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Musings Archive
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RF Deadbolt: Update on SmartHome.Com Insteon MorningLinc
Posted on June 15, 2010 | No CommentsSmartHome recently announced their “MorningLinc” product. My original (and as of yet unexecuted) plan was to crack a Morning Industries remote, soldering on a relay to the lock and unlock contacts allowing control using an I/O module. Apparently that effort is no longer required (see,... -
No frikkin’ way
Posted on April 15, 2009 | No CommentsLeave it to the Germans. I knew the video was older when I saw the Spice Girls there to guest host. Looks like 1997… Yay Rupert. Hydraulics, Guts, & A Good Operator OK, so this guy is nutz…and I don’t care WHAT they pay him!... -
The Adaptec 31605 Boot Cycle
Posted on April 12, 2009 | No CommentsNice LED patterns a la Cylon. -
Programming RFXCom direct with C# TcpClient
Posted on March 29, 2009 | No CommentsI spent a bit of time yesterday programming against the RFXCom reciever. The C# TcpClient class gets things up and running extremely quickly. In much same way as interacting with files (FileStream, StreamWriter), you can create a instance of a System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient, get a System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream, and go... -
TGIFrikkinF
Posted on March 26, 2009 | No CommentsI love Friday. It is deeply intertwined with my love of beer, I assure you. This week has gone by especially fast, like my computer, I’m sure it is the anti-histamines. Anyways, typical Friday afternoon meeting with Kevin scheduled, will meet up at Redhook to... -
Your mom.
Posted on March 25, 2009 | No CommentsThat’s right. Your mom. -
ShuffleMood ™
Posted on March 25, 2009 | No CommentsI caught up on The Office (US) this morning. It completes me. It is no coincidence that Michael’s great ideas about toilets (the coin net?, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Vnl0m6HSc @ 3:14) likely came during his thinking time on the toilet. Sure, I think on the toilet and in... -
Going Green takes Green
Posted on March 23, 2009 | No CommentsAs a conventional Engineer, and a grade 4 student of Mrs. Elion’s, I’m a big fan of the scientific method. My hypothesis is pretty simple: I’m an energy hog . The challenge is to look at exactly how bad I am, and how to evolve my... -
RFXCom reciever
Posted on March 18, 2009 | No CommentsOrdered the RFXCom from cheapertronics.com. Went with the dual reciever module (433+310MHz) to pickup both Oregon Scientific and X-10 data. This does NOT work with the La Crosse transmitters, or the Xanboo transmitters, despite both being able to broadcast at 433MHz. X-10 data comes in... -
WordPress Permalinks not working with GoDaddy
Posted on August 23, 2008 | No Comments“Wait” has got to be the most frustrating of all “solutions”. I can tolerate kicking, dropping, and even rebooting; but waiting? Waiting seems to work with the signifigant other, she can’t stay mad forever right? It seems like many problems, the trick to permalinks in WordPress...