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Wifi Modem Number 3

August 11, 2025

Magnavox The Voice

August 11, 2025

Upgrades for the TI 99/4A

June 18, 2025

Ham Radio BT mic

March 5, 2025

Midland LMR followup

March 4, 2025

Revisiting radios from my past

February 26, 2025

Rare Apple stuff

January 28, 2025

TI 99/4A Diag hardware!

December 17, 2024

Some projects in for soldering practice!

December 17, 2024

Orlando Hamcation 2024 – Chierda D200

February 11, 2024

Something new showed up on the driveway today..

August 31, 2023

Visiting Free Play Florida

November 20, 2022

The Hayes Retromodem

November 4, 2022

Midget City

July 27, 2022

Plastic Repair Project

July 19, 2022

The Biscuits Charles loves to make

July 4, 2022

The School burns, AGAIN!

June 14, 2022

Apple II gs WOZ Limited Edition

May 22, 2022

What was KAB1341? (a followup to a vague Facebook posting)

May 14, 2022

Welcome the Astra 1620 Dual Floppy Drive

May 14, 2022

YetAnotherSortingThing

May 8, 2022

The 99er Vol 3 Number 10 Oct 1985

May 7, 2022

The 99er Vol 3 Number 9 Sept 1985

May 7, 2022

The 99er Aug 1985

The 99er Vol 3 Number 8 August 1985

May 5, 2022

TI 99/4A PHP1850C External Floppy Drive

May 1, 2022

Another step in my journey of battery testing

January 3, 2022

I’m offically a successful cord cutter (again)!

September 20, 2021

Late to the crypto mining game…

March 17, 2021

Its cold outside, so lets melt a few things…

January 10, 2021

Buy Stuff-Light Stuff-Melt Stuff-Repeat Stuff

April 22, 2020

Amdisk1 and Amdisk III

March 1, 2020

Juniper error “Host 0 Boot from backup root”

December 25, 2019

Expiring SSL Cert Self Signed Centos 7

November 29, 2019

Finally Adding some duplexers!

September 30, 2019

WILLETT POT STILL RESERVE

New Whiskey/Bourbon pickups.

August 18, 2019

Midland LMR Syn1, Syn2, XTR Radios…

December 26, 2018

Invalid Regional Code for this CPS version – Error

December 24, 2018

When your server cert key expires

December 17, 2018

Dell Poweredge R710 Identification

October 19, 2018

Batteries, feed, caring, and testing…

October 6, 2018

Securing the pipes with a good SSL/TLS solution

June 14, 2018

lost connection after AUTH log files

April 22, 2018

Star Wars Arcade control panel gear replacement

April 20, 2018

We’re puttin on the water wings!

March 16, 2018

Skateboard is getting close to done!

March 7, 2018

Purple Carrot Order for the week of 3/5

March 6, 2018

SharkRF openSPOT

March 3, 2018

Hytera drivers/CPS software

February 21, 2018

Another DMR radio from Hamcation 2018 – Hytera PD362UC

February 15, 2018

AT-D868UV-500x500

Another new DMR Radio to play with – AT-D868UV from Anytone

February 15, 2018

UMX Timber BNF Basic 700mm (27.6″) Wingspan from E-flite – (Bind-N-Fly) – BNF – EFLU3950

January 18, 2018

Certwatch errors resolved

January 6, 2018

Things I found during my inventory

December 25, 2017

Finally out flying again

November 26, 2017

Atari Jaguar inventory in prep for FreePlayFlorida

November 9, 2017

Arcade monitor Rejuvinator!

October 7, 2017

Postfix spam prevention by use of blacklists.

August 31, 2017

Trailer Tire Stud Spacing ID

August 7, 2017

Coins to look for, the latest version

June 18, 2017

Deezol Project

May 25, 2017

Leitz Icon printer – No Cartridge Loaded

May 19, 2017

VMWare host SMART error on usb

May 15, 2017

FREENAS and VMWARE storage troubles..

May 4, 2017

Electric trailer brake conversion project

December 29, 2016

Kohler Courage 19 Project.

October 14, 2016

My RC collection

April 2, 2016

Upgrading the Power Wheels Jeep

July 20, 2015

How not to fly your new RC plane

January 26, 2015

Subaru 360 Sales Flyer

January 26, 2014

Its running!

January 19, 2014

Finally, IN the car

January 19, 2014

Project Subaru has begun!

January 19, 2014

The giant camera post in the yard

October 5, 2013

N Scale Train set remodel.

January 2, 2013

Just up the trail from me….

January 2, 2013

Moved all my servers to ESXi

October 15, 2012

B-Squares have arrived!

October 29, 2011

Fantastic frugal quotes

September 12, 2011

Ruger 10/22 issues.

August 31, 2011

My first attempt at canning.

April 24, 2011

PC vs Mac infographic

April 24, 2011

Charles is goint to crap his pullup when he sees this.

April 24, 2011

Dad’s 1yr – What was KAB1341? (a followup to a vague Facebook posting)

April 22, 2011

Diamond K9000 Install and use

February 1, 2011

Icom H16 Radio Programming

September 19, 2010

Kitchen aid Mixer/Veg slicer vs potatoes

August 26, 2010

Propane tank information

May 14, 2010

Top ammo produced from Winchester

May 10, 2010

A Nissan in my future?

April 5, 2010

Changes to the solar.

March 18, 2010

http://www.familab.org/ Its a local hacker resource haven.

March 3, 2010

Getting started with Wattvision

November 28, 2009

So I’m walking through the yard

November 21, 2009

Voxeo

October 10, 2009

A post about guns

October 2, 2009

It was about time, Ohio

September 26, 2009

Two more, off the streets

August 19, 2009

Solar Power installs pretty much can’t be stopped by a HOA

July 20, 2009

1. Claim to have a gun, but don’t 2. Rob a store.

July 12, 2009

Another one for the good guys…

July 12, 2009

Atari 8 Bit Modems Retro

Wifi Modem Number 3

Trying out Scott Swazey's latest wifi modem. This incarnation is specific to the US Robotics 2400 Courier modem, and bumps up the functionality with a new proc and more sounds.…

RobPatton August 11, 2025

Home Computer/Video Games Retro

Magnavox The Voice

Have several of the Magnavox Odyssey^2, but have never had the voice module. Till now. Sadly this unit is not 100% functional, but its complete and pretty clean. One time,…

RobPatton August 11, 2025

Retro TI99/4A

Upgrades for the TI 99/4A

Finally spent my fathers day doing some projects for the retro stuff. It was finally time to upgrade my TI99/4A over to an F18 video upgrade, as well as to…

RobPatton June 18, 2025

Ham Radio

Ham Radio BT mic

Saw this for sale cheap on amazon.com, figured I'd give it a shot. So far I've been fairly impressed, for 26$ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9QLQNDY That bind process was hit and miss (mostly…

RobPatton March 5, 2025

Ham Radio

Midland LMR followup

Followup to a post from a week ago, where I found and started documenting some of my old Midland LMR parts. Today I found my tote of Z-273 moldules, and…

RobPatton March 4, 2025

Ham Radio

Revisiting radios from my past

These were the readios in use many years ago, when sent out to pasture (surplus), these made great low cost high power amazing duty cycle radios for HAM use. Many…

RobPatton February 26, 2025

Life Stuff Tech

How to add a remote for a 2001 Ford Escape

Turn ignition from OFF to RUN 8 times within 10 seconds, with the 8th time ending in RUN. All doors will lock then unlock to confirm programming mode. Within 20…

RobPatton July 12, 2009

Guns

Florida gun laws on the way?

Firearms Freedom Act Introduced in Florida Introduced in the Florida House on July 6, 2009, the “Firearms Freedom Act” (HB-21) seeks to provide “that specified firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition…

RobPatton July 10, 2009

Just plain weird Money

Close the PostOffice?

A rallying cry can be heard across the country, from the swanky streets of SoHo to the tiny town of Randolph, Kan.: "Save Our Post Office!" As the United States…

RobPatton July 5, 2009

Care and Feeding of a Geek

5 Tips on Proper Geek Male Maintenance Geek Males often work in fields that cause them to have to think a great deal and work long or irregular hours. This…

RobPatton June 28, 2009

House Stuff Tech

My WDTV Hacking project.

A lot has changed just in the past 30 days on this project. I'm running on the B-Rad fork of this, and currently my WDTV has: Ethernet via a wii…

RobPatton June 16, 2009

Guns

TN Follows with some good ideas. Florida?!?!

(AP) NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A person who legally possesses a gun would not have it seized during periods of martial rule under a proposal that has been signed into law…

RobPatton May 30, 2009

Guns

I guess we won’t be invaded any time soon.

In just 3 months Americans bought enough guns to outfit the entire Chinese and Indian army’s combined. “You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind…

RobPatton May 25, 2009

House Stuff Life Stuff Things I want

About some propane tanks.

Propane is an interesting fuel. Unlike Gasoline or Diesel, its CLEAN burning, it never goes bad, and its safe to keep around. Its also a dandy way of getting your…

RobPatton May 24, 2009

I think I like the new rules…

I think I like these rules, when can we get them here?

RobPatton May 17, 2009

Another thing I just MUST have

The Gerber Kick Axe is not what you use to open Gerber baby food. It’s a more portable, foldable way of having an axe on you at all times, for…

RobPatton May 17, 2009

Atari 8 Bit Modems Retro

Wifi Modem Number 3

RobPatton August 11, 2025

Home Computer/Video Games Retro

Magnavox The Voice

RobPatton August 11, 2025

Retro TI99/4A

Upgrades for the TI 99/4A

RobPatton June 18, 2025

Ham Radio

Ham Radio BT mic

RobPatton March 5, 2025