My Commentary and Technical help

Those who follow my blog might know that I like to refurbish used projectors and send them overseas with missionaries.  Recently someone tol...

Sept 24 was the Hamfest (Radio Amature Flee Market) in Elmira/orseheads NY. This was my first time to go to this event.  It was quite large ...

I have been busy rebuilding my DIY CNC machine.  It will be all metal when I get done.  It will also include a USB interface, likely an Ardu...

I recently added some more shelves in my lab to hold more books, videos and projects.  Here is a couple of views of the room. On the left ...

I know there are hundreds of other posts on this subject.  I have now tried it and it works!  The last time I sent the motherboard off and s...

The 2016 Batavia Hamfest was the best Hamfest that I have attended this year.  Maybe also one of the biggest in Batavia as well.  I only spe...

I have succeeded in writing the code for the SSD1289 screen to work with a Raspberry Pi.  I also added a control panel so I have more variab...

I have removed the wall between the dining room and kitchen.  This creates an open concept, making the living room and kitchen seem bigger. ...

After about 2 weeks of trying I finally got a parallel interface LCD to work in Python.  I converted the code from C for the Arduino.  It di...

The 2016 Chaffee Hamfest was last weekend.  It was supposed to rain so we used the pavilions.  It was a little too windy for my books so I k...

The Raspberry Pi Zero was supposed to be a $5 single board computer.  However they were quickly bought up and resold for $25 or more.  With ...

Over the holiday weekend I finished up writing my code for this 2.8 inch LCD.  It can now do bmp graphics as well as text and even large tex...