Using Node-Red to send commands to Wifi LED Controllers
After buying a new Raspberry Pi 3, I noticed it came with an interesting app called Node-Red. Already familiar with Node.JS, I thought it was going to be some cheesy simplification that was going to severely limit what it could do for beginners. To my amazement, it wasn’t. Node-Red is a tool designed for IoT to [...]
How to fix Android’s Insufficient Storage Available when you really do have space left
If you have an Android device, you probably have gotten this error message before. There is an actual reason why this happens but Android does a terrible job informing you what it is and an even worse job of getting you to a solution to update or install that new app you want. Quick, How do I fix it? The quickest way to fix [...]
Improve your Mac’s Audio Output
I’m a huge audio person, but I am not an audiophile. I think you can have amazing sound without spending hundreds or thousands of dollars of equipment or even buying additional equipment. It used to be with analog audio you needed specialized equipment to produce amazing sound. But in the digital era, almost all processing is done [...]
Google App Engine Bulkloader Refreshing due to a 401 Loop
Developing apps on Google App Engine can be difficult when your production servers have a dataset that is hard to reproduce on your local development servers. Thankfully Google App Engine includes a very useful tool to do bulkloading. To download your data from production: appcfg.py download_data [...]
Can an Asus EB1033 mini computer run Windows 10?
No, it starts Windows 10 setup, copies all of the files and then restarts with the following error on boot up. Install Windows – The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install Windows, click “OK” to restart the computer, and then restart [...]
Rattle Noise on 862D Solder Station
I’m really quite happy with the 862D+ soldering station, it heats quickly, user-controllable temperature, and overall good design. Except for my unit rattles. Oddly, only when it is under no load (when both soldering and hot air disabled). At first, I thought this was a fan inside that wasn’t well tightened. But to [...]
Building Floating Shelf with Wine Glass Rack
After looking at a few different stores, I was very disappointed with the sizing selection of floating shelf and that most wine glass brackets are too long to install under anything but cabinets. So I set off to build my own. The Design Floating shelves are purposely designed to be thick as a way to hide the standard L brackets that [...]