Category: Fun
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Memories Of A Cabling Fiasco
So back in the day I worked for a company called UCS. I won’t go into the poor employee moral or the way we were treated…I’m taking the high road. What I will talk about is a particularly bad night…err early morning. So we had a lot of old cat3 50 pair running through the…
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MacGyver Cheese Whiz Handle
My 3 year old wasn’t capable of actuating his can of processed cheese spread. What kind of parent would I be if he missed this piece of Americana? Here’s a video of the Cheese Whizzer in action: You guys jelly? I’ll make you one for $19.95 with free shipping. 😉
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Normands Was The Coolest Guy At The PL MUM
Evidence Here’s the only evidence you need. Let me focus in a little: Little closer… That’s it folks…I’m officially famous. I’m now retiring…I don’t need the blog or to show up to MUMs anymore. Good day sir. Thanks for spotting it Andrew 😛
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OWIKIT ATR(All Terrain Robot)
The kids and I recently assembled the OWI ATR. It is basically a kit that assembles into a tank style grabber, forklift or rover. It has a corded remote and runs off of 3 AA batteries. Since this has a LOT of parts I broke the build out to about four days…the kiddos have a…
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Computer Controlled Christmas Lights
You know it was inevitable…I can’t help myself. I already had a ck1610 serial relay controller…as well as an old junk laptop…so I married the two together for Christmas this year. This is a serially controlled 8 relay 2 opto-isolated input device. You throw a serial command at it and it will kick on a…
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Rogue Access Point Detection/Mitigation
This is the article relating to my 2011 MUM presentation. I was trying to think of something fun and different for this year’s MUM, so I came up with rogue access point detection/mitigation. The project surrounds having a Mikrotik probe connect to any open access points it can find. It then trys to access a…