Tag : How To
2025-01-11
All astrophotography addicts have excess gear - some of it can be resurrected for further use.
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2017-02-16
Some in the Army call me unprofessional for hating DISA ... I don't care.
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2026-09-09
I needed a way to automatically restart an APRS station without actively monitoring it.
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2026-07-15
Another fun hacking challenge from AVENGERCON ... if you didn't succeed, here's a walk through on the badge.
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2020-05-28
Because water balloon catapults need too many people to operate.
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2006-03-07
Jeeps tend to carry a lot gear around inside but overhead consoles tend to cost hundreds of dollars. Depending on what your need is, you can "Do It Yourself" for a mere fraction of that cost.
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2024-09-14
D-Star is already in a pain in the ass. The ICOM menus don't make it any easier.
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2013-01-15
There's a lot more to converting a Jeep Wrangler from gas to diesel than just buying a motor and dropping it in. But the benefits of a Cummins 4BT, like 30mpg and 300ft-lbs of torque, can be worth the time, money and effort if you do it right.
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2009-02-09
In the course of doing anti-money laundering (AML) work with named entity lists and other person matching activities for the finance industry, I discovered most companies are quite terrible at the task.
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2019-12-21
Without a "Battle Damage Assessment," you'll have no idea if its working.
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2022-04-29
It can be hard to hit an APRS gateway on a handheld unless you're in a metropolitan area or somewhere extremely flat. Try creating your own rolling gateway for mobile coverage.
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2024-01-27
Setting up a receive-only APRS IGate with a Raspberry Pi and Direwolf is very easy and can provide quick APRS coverage to dead spaces.
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2011-12-02
Sometimes migrating VMs between environments can have unintended side-effects that are difficult to "unconfigure".
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2017-01-22
... because solder, wires, and an external interface is nerdier, that's why.
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2024-01-28
Running your own EchoLink node on a Raspberry Pi with SvxLink allows you to take beyond line-of-sight connectivity on the go.
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2025-09-27
If you like using the command line to control your Pi-Star, you may have noticed the pistar-ysflink command doesn't work.
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2019-08-12
Unfortunately, it's a $100 part for breaking a single wire ... but do it yourself in 20 minutes and save on labor fees.
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2014-01-09
Now that CPU and GPU home mining is not cost effective, how does one get involved with BitCoins?
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2017-04-15
A hand throttle can be a "poor mans cruise control" or a vital off-roading tool.
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2018-03-16
Obviously the public WiFi point should be yours ... get rid of the other pesky users to speed up your connection.
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2014-01-15
The days of mining Bitcoins at home are gone, but several alternate digital currencies like Litecoin, Peercoin, and Feathercoin are still within reach.
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2013-10-17
IRCd-Hybrid does not have SSL enabled and requires some workarounds to secure its connections. This tutorial will get an IRCd-Hybrid server running, linked to other servers, and secured with SSL.
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2009-01-16
It sure is handy having a portable video player ... but getting video you already own onto it without buying it again can be a hassle.
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2013-12-25
On our trip to Morocco in 2007 we met Salah Idim Bouri at Julio's Riad Dar Pangal Kasbah. He taught us the Moroccan way to make mint tea.
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2008-05-01
There are a number of "life skills" out there that are just handy to know ... lock picking is one of them.
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2014-08-29
Don't pay hundreds of dollars to a dealer to replace your disc brake pads. With a few tools and about 30 minutes, you can do it yourself easily.
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2010-08-23
Ruby on Rails ... is a language framework that is very easy to have a love/hate relationship with. When things "just work", it's beautiful. But when they don't?
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2009-10-25
OS X is a sweet OS but paying the premium for Apple hardware can be quite prohibitive.
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2025-10-23
I was surprised what an undocumented pain-in-the-ass it was getting qemu-ga working in a Windows VM and accessible to the Linux hypervisor.
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2023-11-06
A component failure that is irrelevant to regular driving can completely cripple your Jeep.
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2020-08-02
I found a lot of forums saying "do it" but no pictures of the process.
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2020-08-16
It was a pain in the ass ... but once I had the solution, it was easy.
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1999-07-28
On-line tutorial for programming a basic, x86 PC bootstrap and binary image loader in assembly language.
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2014-10-02
The ability of manufacturing a firearm entirely at home is becoming more realistic with affordable 3D printers and CNC mills.
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2024-06-22
The SeeStar S50 is a fun and cheap little robot telescope but it has an absolutely horrendous user interface which makes simple things difficult.
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1997-04-27
Back in the day, you could get a huge performance boost from manually tweaking the RAM refresh rate.
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2019-07-18
When the service techs cannot help you, utilize your inner Nerd to gather data.
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2010-06-05
My supercharged 4.0L Jeep Wrangler kept throwing a P0129 error OBDII code and I needed to figure out how to solve it. Using a USB oscilloscope, a home mechanic can troubleshoot all kinds of electrical issues.
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2022-04-02
I like using my HAM radios but I also like sitting on the sofa with my family.
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