With the First Robotics build season in full swing and the team is working hard to get a robot that’s competition ready! As one of the coaches, I’ll be just as busy but might chip away at these pro...

In my last post, I listed the equipment I used to set up my home lab. In this post, I’ll give you a quick rundown of how I went about setting that up. A few things you’ll need IP Addresses to ...

Here’s a short breakdown of the hardware that’s currently running my home lab, most of it was picked based on cost and availability. In later posts, I’ll go into how it was set up and what it’s run...

Not long after writing the last blog the M.2(in a SATA conversion case) in my Lenovo M700 Tiny failed. After doing some detective work I resolved to work on getting the CEPH cluster back up and hea...

Seeing articles, and hearing podcasts, recently talking about alternatives to Raspberry Pi’s alternatives I thought it would be good to give a rundown on my setup and experience over the last year ...

Just before I joined the US Navy, back in the late 90s, there was a government shutdown during the Clinton era that saw many service members(along with other federal employees) without a paycheck w...

Thanksgiving break has come and gone here in the states, and with the return to school come the tickets, antsy kids, and tired parents, all ready to get back into a routine. During breaks like this...

The question of whether Twiter is going to fail might depend, in part, on your point of view. For those who use Twitter to communicate and feel connected to groups, it may be time to switch to some...

I thought I would take time to update you and what’s been going on since it’s been a couple of weeks since the last post. The first news was that I went on a trip with a co-worker to look at Amatro...

Waking up with a start and sweating there’s a sense something is wrong, it takes a second to pick up what it is. The ship is quiet, shit, there’s no power or engine noise. I hop out of my rack, jum...