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Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge Set Dressing
Here’s a bunch of photos I took last week at Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge – Black Spire Outpost in Disneyland. I thought they may be useful for anyone trying to build a similar thematic structure, either for dressing up a home theater room, or just to add some spice to a family room.
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Home Hacker Project: Battery Powered Water Fountain
Howdy! Welcome to the first weekly electronics tutorial — I’m going to be aiming to do this out front of my house every Friday for students walking home from Donegal Intermediate School or folks visiting our Little Free Library to check out! Parts for today’s build: Small Water Pump — from Amazon, $12.99 for 5…
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So that I don’t lose it: Stifado Recipe
Ingredients: 2-3 lbs beef, cubed 2-3 lbs pearled onions 1 large yellow onion, chopped 1 28 oz can tomatoes 1 cup dry red wine ¼ cup red wine vinegar ⅓ cup olive oil 3 cloves garlic, bruised 1 tsp sugar Spice bag: 2 bay leaves 1 tablespoon allspice berries 2 3-inch cinnamon sticks In a stew…
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The Dimensions of POGs
Because of reasons, I’ve had cause to dig out my old POG collection and take detailed measurements of them. Here’s what I’ve come up with: A POG Milkcap measures: 41.37 mm or 1.6285 inches in diameter. 1.25 mm or 0.0490 inches in thickness. Forty POGs weigh 1.65 oz or ~0.041 oz per POG. Forty POG…
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Hacker Home Security Hardware Prototype!
Just wrote a post over on Hacker Home Security detailing the first prototype board for my project of the same name. I’d expected initially to make it on the D1 Mini platform, but recently sorted out some of my prior problems with using a raw ESP8266, so I’ve since migrated to that. Plus it’s significantly more…
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When Mike Pence Comes to Your Alma Mater
I’ll be writing a similar letter to my alma mater’s leadership shortly. Very disappointed right now.
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WordPress of Things
Continuing my prior remarks on building Internet of Things devices that connect to WordPress, I delivered a talk at WordCamp Lancaster earlier this month on that topic. All the code from the examples is up on my GitHub page here: https://github.com/georgestephanis/wordpress-of-things/ I’ll be working on some future posts that open each project up in more…
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Motion Sensor WiFi Light Switch
The downside of the old knob and tube style of wiring is that some off-the-shelf light switches, like the common Leviton motion-sensor switch, are totally non-functional without a ground wire — which knob and tube wiring doesn’t typically provide. What is a hacker to do? The smarter solution is probably to find a way to…
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Chicken Tender Wrap
Disclaimer: You’ll want a bigger tortilla than I’m using in the pictures. I wound up having way too much stuff in it, and had to split it into two wraps after trying to wrap it.
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Electronic Conference Badges
Ever since attending Defcon 24 this past August, I’ve been enthralled with the idea of electronic event badges. I’m also pondering and trying to sort out what exactly would be needed to accomplish them on a budget that could be done for a WordCamp, and have it be both hackable after the event, but also…
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