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      <title>How to build a raspberry pi picture frame media pc</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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 gotten a little sluggish, the distro isn’t supported, the black lights have gone bad, I think there’s a demon in there.]]></description><enclosure url="/2021/03/14/how-to-build-a-raspberry-pi-picture-frame-media-pc/featured.jpg" length="35415" type="image/jpeg" />
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      <title>Progress on the green sprinkler system project!</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2017 15:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[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 up via solar!!!
Man I am feeling kind of green!
Like this guy?]]></description><enclosure url="/2017/04/14/progress-on-the-green-sprinkler-system-project/featured.jpg" length="11206" type="image/jpeg" />
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      <title>Time lapse in new printer enclosure</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[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 higher up. ELEVATE TO THE LEVEL OF THE GODS!!! no. just high enough I can watch it cause I like to watch it go back and forth while I make printer noises.]]></description><enclosure url="/2016/08/22/time-lapse-in-new-printer-enclosure/featured.jpg" length="67351" type="image/jpeg" />
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      <title>Is it hot in here?  Home Automation AC addition</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2016 22:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[So my Super Villain lair is super secretly located in my converted garage… shhhh.
So we found out that Florida is a rough place to be a super villain. It’s hot here. So I needed a way to help keep my lair cool. So many full moons ago my minions held a Staples store for ransom till they gave me an AC unit.
This thing is huge. It’s a 14000 BTU unit.]]></description><enclosure url="/2016/04/10/is-it-hot-in-here-home-automation-ac-addition/featured.jpg" length="55999" type="image/jpeg" />
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      <title>Traffic (actual cars) Woes</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2016 00:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[So in the last 2 weeks I have been put to the test of patience and road rage.
Last week there was a guy that decided to take his dog for a walk on the over pass and decided to stop and contemplate jumping. This closed down a 3 lane highway and the 2 joining lanes completely in morning rush hour. Diverted traffic was diverted to a 1 lane exit. I sat in traffic for 3.]]></description><enclosure url="/2016/04/09/traffic-actual-cars-woes/featured.gif" length="27397" type="image/gif" />
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      <title>New Firewall Status!</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2016 00:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[So a couple weeks ago I wrote about the new firewall setup.
Quick update on the status of that. I built it out. Got it working. yay!
But I want more cool stuff. So I have a business class fiber line run to the house with 5 static IP’s. So I decided to see if I could get pfsense to do failover router. You know, because why not. I tried to get pfsense to install on this old thin client I had.]]></description><enclosure url="/2016/03/28/new-firewall-status/featured.png" length="202601" type="image/png" />
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      <title>Some projects and upgrades</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2016 18:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[So I have a few things on order coming from china for some various projects.
I figured since I haven’t posted much lately I will post some pre-project dribble.
Phoenix Connectors – Aliexpress
I have these coming to be able to connect audio up to my ClearOne XAP800. The XAP800 is going to be added to my Home Automation system to be able to control/mix/route audio from various sources to various destinations.]]></description><enclosure url="/2016/03/04/some-projects-and-upgrades/featured.jpg" length="93461" type="image/jpeg" />
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      <title>OpenHab crashing with Z-Wave FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT!!</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2016 01:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description><![CDATA[So, my openhab system periodically decides to leave the building. Appears there is a problem from time to time when the z-wave binding loses communication to the z-wave stick it gets upset and tells openhab to take a hike.
This is bad. Once because it exposed something I missed in my fault tolerance. I had compensated for network issues and full machine failover. But the actual process going belly up…. ooops.]]></description><enclosure url="/2016/01/24/openhab-crashing-with-z-wave-fix-it-fix-it-fix-it-fix-it/featured.png" length="168422" type="image/png" />
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