Category Archives: Technology

XBMC — it’s pretty good

I have been looking for a solution for my home media for some time now. I got into the DVD revolution early, and amassed over 600 titles that I have been storing in DVD jukeboxes for years. The jukes work, … Continue reading

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Digital media and you

I have over 600 DVDs in my collection. I have been using a constellation of DVD jukeboxes to store and organize them, but this is not a good solution for my family. They are fragile and sometimes hard to access … Continue reading

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CNC update – endmills

I have a DeWalt palm router (I’ll get the model number later). It has a collet, not a chuck, so it can take 1/4″ shank bits only. Speed change bits don’t work. Just round-shank router bits. I ran the endmill … Continue reading

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CNC – parts is parts

I fired up the CNC machine over the weekend. I was trying to figure out how to cut concentric circles in a piece of plywood, and decided that it would be easiest to do it “in software”. The hardest part … Continue reading

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Sidereal time

The stars rise about 4 minutes earlier every day, making them seem to march ever-westward across the sky. I received the gift of a real-time clock (RTC) circuit last week, and it got me to thinking about how to convert … Continue reading

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Podcasts are cool

It’s the second week of the winter pledge drive on NPR, so I’ve been listening to podcasts instead of the radio during the commute. There are full college-level courses for free up on “iTunes U”. I’ve been listening to the … Continue reading

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