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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

How to add a remote for a 2001 Ford Escape

July 12, 2009

Florida gun laws on the way?

July 10, 2009

Close the PostOffice?

July 5, 2009

Care and Feeding of a Geek

June 28, 2009

My WDTV Hacking project.

June 16, 2009

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

May 30, 2009

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

May 25, 2009

Retro TI99/4A Uncategorized

TI 99/4A Diag hardware!

Got one of these in from Shift838 (funny name, I wonder how many realize - The cheat code for MunchMan on the TI was to hold down shift and press…

RobPatton December 17, 2024

Atari 8 Bit Retro

Some projects in for soldering practice!

A friend in the retro community offered these up for some fun during the Christmas break.. Rest of parts ordered! Colecovision Reprogrammable Card https://github.com/aotta/PiCOLECO Atari 8 bit Pico Cart https://github.com/robinhedwards/A8PicoCart…

RobPatton December 17, 2024

Ham Radio

Orlando Hamcation 2024 – Chierda D200

In my yearly pilgramage to the Orlando Hamcatiob 2024, pocket full of dollars and some good shoes, I went looking for the deals. I was not disapointed. This post will…

RobPatton February 11, 2024

Something new showed up on the driveway today..

Afternoon delivery from Amazon today, not the normal ride. Driver had recently been given one of these and he seems happy with it. It is VERY amazon(ed) from the color…

RobPatton August 31, 2023

Arcade Video Games History Home Computer/Video Games

Visiting Free Play Florida

Florida's largest arcade, pinball, and console show Step back to a time when friends gathered together for games, ate pizza, speculated about alligators in the sewer, and went home when…

RobPatton November 20, 2022

The Hayes Retromodem

The classical way to retro wifi modem Retro Wifi Hayes modem There are a few products out that do this same task, but this one does it with class. Being…

RobPatton November 4, 2022

When your server cert key expires

Renewing a Self-signed cert on Centos Started getting a warning email every day.. ################# SSL Certificate Warning ################ Certificate for hostname ‘webhost’, in file (or by nickname):/etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt The certificate needs…

RobPatton December 17, 2018

Dell Poweredge R710 Identification

Tech

Dell Poweredge R710 Identification

Dell manufactured two generations of the PowerEdge R710 server model and therefore two different revisions of the PowerEdge R710 system board. It is important to understand the differences between the…

RobPatton October 19, 2018

Fixing broken stuff Restorations

Batteries, feed, caring, and testing…

Hi, I'm Rob, and I'm a hoarder collector I have a lot of batteries. Sealed lead acid, AGM, Gel, Lipo, Li-ion The things they all have in common: Needed to…

RobPatton October 6, 2018

Securing the pipes with a good SSL/TLS solution

In a recent trip down the rabbit hole, I started evaluating various site security products for some of the wordpress sites that I run or manage. Moral to the story,…

RobPatton June 14, 2018

lost connection after AUTH log files

The Problem In the past 30 days, I've seen over 140,000 entries from many unique ips, which looks like either DOS or password hacking bots, annoying, especially since all my…

RobPatton April 22, 2018

Arcade Video Games

Star Wars Arcade control panel gear replacement

Finally got around to picking up one of these gears and getting it swapped out on my 1981 Star Wars arcade machine. Orig being plastic over alum, new being all…

RobPatton April 20, 2018

RC Planes/Helicopters

We’re puttin on the water wings!

A while back, gosh, its been 10 months already, my how time flies. I picked up the Horizon Hobby 2.1 m Carbon-Z Cessna 150 Horizon 2.1 meter Cessna 150…

RobPatton March 16, 2018

Skateboard is getting close to done!

After all these years, its almost back to its 1982 glory. Beach board, ACS-651 trucks, Road Rider 6 wheels, Road Rider riser pads. All I need is some NOS…

RobPatton March 7, 2018

Purple Carrot Order for the week of 3/5

RobPatton March 6, 2018

SharkRF openSPOT

After 6 months of sitting on the shelf, @KC4HAD convinced me to sit down and make this thing work. openSPOT is a standalone digital radio IP gateway / hotspot Key…

RobPatton March 3, 2018

Retro TI99/4A Uncategorized

TI 99/4A Diag hardware!

RobPatton December 17, 2024

Atari 8 Bit Retro

Some projects in for soldering practice!

RobPatton December 17, 2024

Ham Radio

Orlando Hamcation 2024 – Chierda D200

RobPatton February 11, 2024

Something new showed up on the driveway today..

RobPatton August 31, 2023