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Sunday, March 3, 2024

Raspberry Pi fails silently to get IP address if it’s already in use

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 An interesting experience while working on some raspberry pi’s around here the other day. After a power failure the network was strangely a...
Monday, July 19, 2021

Airplay (Shairport-sync) on the Raspberry Pi and Disabling Wifi Power Save

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As of this writing on Jul 19th 2021 I am having trouble with the packaged version of shairport-sync. This page outlines how to fairly simply...
Thursday, February 4, 2021

Dead Instrument Cluster, part: The Second

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 See my previous article and then know that 4 days later it died again.  I was lucky in that I never cancelled the appointment to get it fix...
Friday, January 29, 2021

Instrument Cluster Board Level Repairs And The Evils of Lead Free Solder

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 My wife drives a Ford C-Max “energie” plugin hybrid. It is an awesome little car that Ford no longer bothers to sell in the US because they...
Monday, August 3, 2020

Power Supplies for ESP32 Arduino Based Projects

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You’ll be surprised to learn that not all power supplies are created equal ;) Or if you’ve bought more than 1 or 2 online you’ll not be surp...
Friday, July 3, 2020

1-wire Temperature Sensors and Lightning (and other sources of interference)

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I use a lot of 1-wire temp sensors around the house for various purposes. One of which was a sort of hack to know when the hot water heater ...
Friday, January 3, 2020

Python Motion Detection on a Raspberry Pi Zero

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I have been working non-stop the last few months to make my main project software compatible with Apple’s latest OS version. I finally reali...