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Happy PI Day!!! A few years back… ok… like 9 years ago. I built an interesting piece of functional art in my living room. It was my media center pc, mounted in a double picture frame on my wall. This thing served me well for a long time. But now it’s time to upgrade it. After all this time the ATOM board in there has...

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Some of you know, I really like lithium ion batteries *shocked* Shut it! This is a short post, I don’t need you hamming up the works. Just wait till I show up in your videos…. You wouldn’t…. Hello…. Oh hell….. Ok, lets not worry about that now. I picked up a pretty sweet haul of batteries this week. 22lbs. I counted...

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I have made some progress on the green sprinkler system project. I even shot some video recently!!! Here is some testing of the water quality…. WHO PEED IN MY BARREL!! Now for the big update!!! Built a battery from recycled 18650 laptop cells. Hooked it to my pump. Drained my rain barrel!! Then charged the battery back...

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I use octoprint to manage my printer. When I can, I batch print. I will literally print things back to back. But I also love the timelapse and we have all seen it…. But I have more robot stuff to print!!!! Settle down there smart guy. Nobody asked you! Ok, interruptions aside. Running octoprint on an original pi is a...

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So awhile back I came across an instructables article regarding using some ikea lack tables to make a 3dprinter enclosure….. I love ikea…. So this was the project. http://www.instructables.com/id/3d-Printer-Enclosure-from-Upcycled-Furniture/ I went to ikea. Got 2 lack tables and put them together…. I want my printer...

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Hello Hello again. Recently I was chiming in on a thread on reddit regarding CCTV. I mentioned how my cameras/cctv is setup. Then I thought. Hey, you know would like to know this? EVERYONE!!!! Really. Conversation totally happened in my head. Told you Doctors it’s not too crowded up there. Let’s begin!! This all really...