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  • Poor OpSec at the North Pole

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    Hykel and I watched Prep & Landing: Naughty vs Nice a couple of nights ago. Everything I’m going to talk about should be ignored mostly because this is a fun Christmas movie about the importance of family. That said, I noticed a whole bunch of poor practices going on in the North Pole’s IT dept…

  • ‘Twas the night before Star Wars

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      For some, it’s the Star Wars Day. For me, my showing technically comes tomorrow, midnight actually. I am excited more than I can really describe. In 1999 I went and saw The Matrix, with some friends after school. I knew virtually nothing about it. With how much I love Star Wars, I’m trying to accomplish the…

  • MakerFaire Project (2015) – Part 2

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    When last we left our hero, he had made sizable progress on his robot, only to be stumbled by it’s devious brain!!! The Teensy 3.x is my Go-to embedded platform these days. I learned most of my embedded stuff by using an Arduino, and the Teensy is like an Arduino without any of the limitations.

  • MakerFaire Project (2015) – Part 1

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    This started out as a “Project of the Week” post, but As it started to take form, and started to stretch beyond a week, I decided I wanted to make a more dedicated post about the developement process. MakerFaire never takes me by surprise, but I always do end up working on it until that…

  • Project of the Week: Mini robot

    Project of the Week: Mini robot

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    I got my new 3D printer up and running recently. After some tuning, some improving, and some printing of backup parts (an ongoing process, I decided I was confident to move forward.

  • The three magazines of my life

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    Print is dead. That’s the first thing I think of when I think of magazines. But on reflection, I realize that I’ve had some special magazines in my life. Special to me, I mean. I don’t know how much of it is being a kid, and getting something in the mail that’s specifically for you,…

  • Plex, Synology, and the dreaded “Video Unavailable”

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    Going to skip the usual stuff at the top here and get straight to it1: Plex is a super-cool, easy-to-use, everywhere media server. Lots of people use it, and lots of people like it. We recently moved our library from an old home-built NAS running FreeNAS to a Synology DSM box. It broke.

  • The 2013 Portland Mini MakerFaire

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    Last year (you may have read), I participated in the Portland Mini MakerFaire. It was great. I absolutely loved sharing and teaching people. This year, I definitely wanted to participate again. In my typical fashion, I put it all off until the night before…

  • 10 minutes with Cory Doctorow

    10 minutes with Cory Doctorow

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    This past Wednesday, I had the opportunity to go see Cory Doctorow (arguably my favorite author) on the local stop of his tour for his new book Homeland. He had been generous enough to give some local makergroups/hackerspaces a chance to say hello and drum up membership. I volunteered to talk about DorkbotPDX and found myself…

  • Thoughts on Libraries

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    My wife works at our local public Library. We started visiting there more recently and I was once again struck at the accessibility and amount of information there. For a time, I had thought that the Internet was a good replacement for the library. Vast amounts of information, easily accessible at lightning speed (literally, electrons…