Apr. 4, 2015
Newest modification is a lazy susan roller bearing to spin the Da Vinci printer around my table. The table that I'm currently setup with only allows access to the printer from the front. My solution to this issue is to install a cheap Lazy Susan roller...
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Apr. 2, 2015
I've in the process of converting my Da Vinci 1.0 over to a E3D. I'm going to use a bowden extruder and I didn't want to modify much of the existing extruder setup, so I ended up buying an extra stepper from RobotDigg to use for the conversion.
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Mar. 14, 2015
I've been tring to get into the performance groove lately and understand the memory allocations that occur in our Ruby applications. This has lead to look into using jemalloc to reduce fragmentation. There has been many discussions on the positives...
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Feb. 26, 2015
I've been working on a project to reverse engineer a keyboard matrix. This keyboard came from when I used to volunteer for FreeGeek back in college. The controller board was long gone, but the pins were still there, so interfacing with AVR was rather...
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Feb. 23, 2015
At my employers we recently switched from using Google Hangouts to using Slack. We like the power it gives us with the ability to extensionize it. So for the first extension, I've decided that it would be nice to keep everyone in the loop with recent...
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Sep. 26, 2014
After getting my milling machine up and running, finding software to do CAM work was difficult. Everything that I found was either way more expensive for me or didn't support running on Linux. If there was a decent free CAM software out there that...
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Jul. 18, 2014
Recently got a new toy to mess with. It's the WL V911 which is a little 4 channel RC helicopter. The little 4 channel helpicopter is a micro size, which is about the a 8 inches long. This little helicopter is a good beginner helicopter after coming...
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Mar. 20, 2014
I recently picked up the KBT Pure Pro keyboard off ebay after a person ended up breaking the USB port and ripped some of the traces. After spending a couple frustating hours on it I got it working.
The biggest gripe so far is the Del swapped with...
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Mar. 5, 2014
I've been having horrible timezone issues with Heroku. There is a lot of information out there, but most of it doesn't work anymore or changes the database connection to store the dates differently.
As you know Heroku has it's servers in PST timezone...
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Feb. 26, 2014
Here is some quick reference material on talking to Dogecoind directly through RPC-JSON and building a transaction manually.
Here is the information about basic wallet operations.
Start dogecoind and use "dogecoind getinfo" to test that dogecoind...
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May. 5, 2013
I have an invisioned plan to have my own SaaS for testing application easily.
Before Docker came about I was working on hacking my own solution via
Squashfs but didn't get anywhere and after many months of having the project
become stale, Docker comes...
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