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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 PHP1850C
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
Posted inAtari 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.…
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Posted by RobPatton August 11, 2025
Posted inHome 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,…
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Posted by RobPatton August 11, 2025
Posted inRetro 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…
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Posted by RobPatton June 18, 2025
Posted inHam 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…
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Posted by RobPatton March 5, 2025
Posted inHam 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…
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Posted by RobPatton March 4, 2025
Posted inHam 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…
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Posted by RobPatton February 26, 2025
YetAnotherSortingThing
Posted inSorting, Bins and Totes

YetAnotherSortingThing

I'm a sucker for containers, and bins, and totes, and boxes, and labels. In effort to get my toolbox organized a little bit better, I've modified some 3dprintable bins to…
Posted by RobPatton May 8, 2022
The 99er Vol 3 Number 10 Oct 1985
Posted inRetro TI99/4A

The 99er Vol 3 Number 10 Oct 1985

Posted by RobPatton May 7, 2022
The 99er Vol 3 Number 9 Sept 1985
Posted inRetro TI99/4A

The 99er Vol 3 Number 9 Sept 1985

TitleAuthorCategoriesTagsCommentsLikesDateSelect The 99er Vol 3 Number 9 Sept 1985
Posted by RobPatton May 7, 2022
The 99er Aug 1985
Posted inRetro TI99/4A

The 99er Vol 3 Number 8 August 1985

The 99er Aug 1985
Posted by RobPatton May 5, 2022
TI PHP1850C
Posted inHome Computer/Video Games TI99/4A

TI 99/4A PHP1850C External Floppy Drive

The Texas Instruments Disk Memory Drive is a high-speed, high-volume memory device. The disk drive reads information from and writes information on a 5-1/4 inch diskette (not included). It can…
Posted by RobPatton May 1, 2022
Another step in my journey of battery testing
Posted inBattery Solar Power Tech

Another step in my journey of battery testing

Genesis 12V 16EP A battery is a chemical container.  Its capable of storing and providing electrical energy as needed until exhausted.  After it is exhausted, it must be recharged or…
Posted by RobPatton January 3, 2022
I’m offically a successful cord cutter (again)!
Posted inHouse Stuff Life Stuff Money

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

Not since I lived in a remote location, and didnt have option for cable, have I had pay-tv. Its just so easy to suck it up and pay the bill…
Posted by RobPatton September 20, 2021
Late to the crypto mining game…
Posted inCrypto

Late to the crypto mining game…

Yep, I'm Late to the crypto mining game, but here I am. I barely have any good GPUs, in a time where you need LOTS, but still, HERE I AM.…
Posted by RobPatton March 17, 2021
Its cold outside, so lets melt a few things…
Posted inMetals and Melting Metals and Melting

Its cold outside, so lets melt a few things…

Posted by RobPatton January 10, 2021
Buy Stuff-Light Stuff-Melt Stuff-Repeat Stuff
Posted inForgedInFire

Buy Stuff-Light Stuff-Melt Stuff-Repeat Stuff

Spent some quarantine time cleaning up stuff, and decided to put all these little bits of copper and brass into a new shape. Looking at some other projects with this…
Posted by RobPatton April 22, 2020

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