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Learning to use the GALI-55 MMIC

September 8, 2015
by admin in Electronics Projects

I didn’t know what the heck I was doing when I tried to use a GALI-55 MMIC in my RF signal generator. A few basic mistakes led to hours of diagnosing the problem.

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My new KG-650 RF Signal Generator

June 4, 2015
by admin in Electronics Projects

I bought an old tube RF generator on eBay. It works surprising well considering the age of the technology. I use my Rigol scope to view some of the waveforms and play with the RF generator a bit.

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Creating the ultimate home automation keypad

April 25, 2015
by admin in Electronics Projects

I wanted a control center mounted to my monitor that I could use for important home automation functions. I build some custom keypads using Cherry MX blue keyswitches and interface them to a Raspberry Pi. I add a VFD display for status info.

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Interfacing a VFD display to the raspberry pi

April 18, 2015
by admin in Electronics Projects

I interface a vacuum fluorescent display to a Raspberry Pi.

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GE iTwinkle 36 LED Christmas light teardown and hacking

November 22, 2014
by admin in Electronics Projects

The availability of GE35 color effects sets, the ones that have been hacked since 2010, is poor. In this article I tear apart one of the new iTwinkle sets to see if they are compatible with the same hack.

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Raspberry Pi Powered Individually Addressable Christmas Lights

November 17, 2014
by admin in Electronics Projects

GE G35 Christmas bulbs are easily hackable. I wanted to control them with my Raspberry Pi, and this describes how I used a Parallax Propeller to do the intermediate protocol handling.

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Nixie Tube Calculator, Powered by a Raspberry Pi

November 4, 2014
by admin in Electronics Projects

My latest Nixie Tube Project, a desktop calculator controlled by the Raspberry Pi. It’s currently on Kickstarter!

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Cisco IOS Router Firewall Configuration (and close an open DNS resolver)

May 7, 2014
by admin in How-To

So I was happily using my Cisco 861W router, and then all of a sudden, years later my internet connection started to slow down. It was fairly obvious the problem was happening during domain name resolution. Sometimes it was fast, other times it was slow. To diagnose the problem, I turned on debugging: debug domain …

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