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Eagle Keyboard Commands for Showing and Hiding Layers
Here’s a short post but one that I think a few people might find useful: CadSoft EAGLE keyboard commands/shortcuts (strangely found under the “Assign” menu in Eagle) to show and hide the Top and Bottom...
View ArticleEachine H8 Quadcopter Custom Firmware Rates/Settings
I recently flashed my new Eachine H8 with some custom firmware (Silver13’s CFW, to be particular) and I spent some time tuning it to be flyable in acro mode with the stock remote. Overall, I think this...
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Adding a buzzer beeper to the Illuminati32/Tarot Naze 32 Flight Controller
My buddy just bought an Illuminati32 FC board from Hobbyking for his new ZMR180 miniquad. The board is pretty sweet: Naze32, MWOSD, 35x35mm form factor, and only 20 bucks (on sale). It was really easy...
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Analyzing the Performance of Acorns Investment Portfolios using Quantopian
I’ve been using Acorns, the app to “help anyone invest” for a little over a year, mainly as a curiosity. One common theme I’ve seen amongst Acorns users is the disappointment with the lack of returns...
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DIY LED Lighting for Fishtank/Aquarium Setups
I’ve got an older Marineland Eclipse 3 tank that needed a new CFL bulb (the old one was barely igniting, and the spectrum was all sorts of off). After looking into the cost for a new bulb from...
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Downloading & Saving a Nest Cam Live Stream Using a Raspberry Pi + Debian Linux
Tonight, I stumbled on an interesting post on Reddit. It linked to two Nest Cams livestreaming the landfall of hurricane Irma from a Miami condo. I popped the streams open on my phone (the hurricane...
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Liquid Cooling an ASUS GTX1070 with Using NZXT G12 GPU Cooler & Corsair H75
My buddy recently decided he wanted to watercool his Asus GTX1070. There’s only two real choices: the NZXT G12 bracket (which replace the stock cooler) and the Corsair HG10 N980. The HG10 isn’t...
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Apple’s ‘BatteryGate’: iPhone 6 Performance Before & After a Battery Replacement
I have an iPhone 6 (?, I know) and noticed an incredible performance hit when I upgraded to iOS 11. I had never seen such an awful change immediately after installing a software update; when I upgraded...
View ArticleAutomatically renewing Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificates on PythonAnywhere
Several months ago, I set up a small webapp using PythonAnywhere. It’s a really easy to use service and for small projects is hard to beat since there is so little setup. They even let you use Let’s...
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Review: PCBWay circuit board fab and assembly
If you’re in the US, and you don’t have a million bucks to spend, the go-to choice for PCBs is usually OSHPark. OSHPark rocks. There is no minimum spend (you can literally order 3 copies of a $1 board...
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