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Christmas Light Automation with Z-wave
I was reminded by Macy’s and Lowes that Christmas is right around the corner. And by around the corner, I mean down the street two blocks and then around the corner. I plan on using Open-Zwave to...
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Cloudflare CDN for Image Hosting Only
I have been a fan of Cloudflare’s CDN and DNS service. I have only used the free and pro level services but I have never had a problem until about 3 weeks ago. Everything seems back to normal but I...
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Walled Gardens Being Defeated by Social Media
First I should say that in a true captive portal or walled garden situation what I am about to tell you does not hold true; however, having used the same exercise to get free open internet in several...
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Connect Your Xbox 360 Big Button ‘Scene It’ Remotes to Linux
This blog is more a story of why I will never manage to clean out storage. When going through a box I found 4 Xbox ‘buzzers’ and what looked like an USB IR receiver. After some Googling, I found out...
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GIT Stops Working on Mac OS X
Annoying SoftwarePHPStorm was not cloning a new git repo correctly. Every time I would go through the open from version control process, the window would just disappear. I figured that the glitch was...
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Amazon Smile with Amazon’s Affiliate Program
Amazon has a new program called AmazonSmile that donates .5% of a customer’s qualifying purchase to a charity of their choice. Honestly, right now things are a little sketchy and it does not seem like...
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Open-Zwave Automated Christmas Setup 2013
I cannot wait until Thanksgiving to put up my outdoor Christmas lights. I don’t care if it breaks tradition. Raspberry Pi controlled automated Christmas lights are going up this week. Winter freaking...
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Do you want the domain PiScripts.com?
I purchased the domain PiScripts.com with the hope of using it for a public GIT repo or snippets for Raspberry Pi related code. Life happened and I have not had the time to use it in the last year and...
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UPS Battery Backup for Raspberry Pi
While the Vantec Power Gem looks like just another portable battery for charging your cell phone, it has two great properties that are unique. It allows you to recharge the battery while using your...
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Testing the New 32-bit ARM Arduino Due
I am excited to play with one of the latest boards from Arduino. The Arduino Due is exciting because it was designed with a 32-bit ARM microcontroller instead of the 8-bit Atmel AVR MCU based Arduino...
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