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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

I am so close to solar power

This isn't mine, but this is what I would like it look like, once its all installed. Another load of equipment arrived today. Bit by bit I get the parts…

RobPatton June 6, 2007

Even the Pope digs solar power

Some of the Holy See buildings will start using solar energy, reflecting Pope Benedict XVI's worry about squandering the Earth's resources, a engineer says. The roof of the Paul VI…

RobPatton June 5, 2007

Cars

Holy crap, this isn’t your grandpappy’s Caddy

2009 model year CTS-v. Supercharged LS7 7.0-liter - about 600 horses. Gonna put the smack down on the Mustang drivers that think they are somthing. Read all about it here

RobPatton June 5, 2007

13′ bridge + 13’6″ truck = Hilarity

RobPatton June 2, 2007

Hello, my name is Rob, and I’m an ENTP

You Are An ENTP The Visionary, You are charming, outgoing, friendly. You make a good first impression.You possess good negotiating skills and can convince anyone of anything.Happy to be the…

RobPatton May 30, 2007

The Panels are coming! The panels are coming!

Well, they're are almost here. The shipment arrived at its first location. My 8 Kyocera KC-130 solar panels are sitting pretty with another 30 that belong to someone else. Soon.…

RobPatton May 30, 2007

Humor Just plain weird

Some folks really love their chili sauce, I guess

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- A manager of a fast food restaurant ended up in the hospital with gunshot wounds after a dispute over some chili sauce. Investigators said a man…

RobPatton May 30, 2007

Just plain weird

This will teach him to shop at best buy.

A man trying to pay a fee using $2 bills was arrested, handcuffed and taken to jail after clerks at a Best Buy store questioned the currency's legitimacy and called…

RobPatton May 29, 2007

Linux first to crash! A car crash that is.

Linux fans didn't exactly get the publicity they were hoping for at the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, when the so-called "Linux car" they had sponsored proved to be the first…

RobPatton May 29, 2007

Inside the mind of an Ebay Bidder – Reserve Auctions

As mentioned Here There are too many imponderables to tell whether this theoretical argument is what really counts in practice. So, Katkar and Reiley put the theory to the test…

RobPatton May 29, 2007

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