Entertainment Center Thermostat

I use a china hutch from my grandmother’s old house as my entertainment center. I never really liked displaying all of one’s electronics and wires and stuff where everyone can see them, so this suits my needs quite nicely. HOWEVER! This particular piece of furniture doesn’t have very good ventilation for all of my heat-producing …

Listen to the Radio from ANYWHERE

Since I moved to South Florida I’ve noticed that there aren’t any appropriate radio stations anywhere down here. They’re all mindless Clear Channel-type Top 40 or country stations. Unacceptable. There weren’t this many country stations when I lived in South Carolina or Tennessee. Anyway! I thought maybe I could build a radio that would get …

Holy oscilloscope, Batman!

I bought an analog Hewlett-Packard oscilloscope today. It was designed in the 70s, built in 1985, and decommissioned by the US Navy in 1993. Still going strong apparently. It’s about two feet long (which is not evident in the picture, but it does not fit on my recliner). I don’t have any test leads yet, but this …

Progress on the “Turing” Slow Cooker

I have successfully managed to control the pins on a parallel (printer) port over the internets. I now document my efforts. I already have this working on my personal desktop (which is apparently old enough to still have a parallel port in it?). For the purposes of writing this without flaws, I will be re-creating …