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Controlling My Garage Door

Controlling My Garage Door

This project started when I noticed that my garage door wall button didn't light up. The button worked fine, but that little LED that illuminates the button was broken. I went on Amazon to get a replacement, and found that simple buttons with LED's were pretty pricy. (I expected them to be < $5). If I was going to spend $10 on a lighted button, [...] Read more

Personal Home Server

Personal Home Server

If you're not parinoid, your eyes aren't open. While the "cloud" makes lilfe incredibly convenient, at it's core, you shouldn't trust it. The price you pay for doing everything in the cloud is your privacy and the trust you give to those companies not to loose your data. While google or amazon is incredibly unlikely to crash and loose your data, I [...] Read more

Apple's Plot to Ruin Your iPhone

Apple&#039;s Plot to Ruin Your iPhone

I'm a huge fan of Android, however I did switch over to an iPhone once for a few cycles. I noticed some things, then I noticed them again in the latest iPhone release. Everytime an updated iPhone comes out, it seems that an OTA (Over the Air) update also becomes available for old iPhones. The update never contains anything useful. For instance, [...] Read more

Building a Fast Blog with Get Simple CMS

...or how I ditched WordPress for something more practical. WordPress is great. It has a ton of themes, a ton of plugins, and a ton of support due to it's widespread adoption. Furthermore, WordPress can scale to handle a lot of users and a lot of posts. However, this functionality comes at a price. WordPress uses a database to store posts. This [...] Read more

Installing ArchLinux on a Raspberry Pi

Installing ArchLinux on a Raspberry Pi

Installing ArchLinux on your Pi is the first step in establishing a SeedBox or any other embedded system. I choose ArchLinux because it's about as barebones as you can get. There's no extra software past what you install, so it's more prone to run nice and snappy. The downside is that you HAVE to install everything you need. This makes setup more [...] Read more