Brew Day – 4/16/17 – Fast Forward IPA

An early spring brew of Fast Forward. This brew follows up the October brew of Fast Forward which turned out to be less than spectacular due to a missed Original Gravity. In this brew, the second beer of the day, I will attempt to overcome the missed mashed experienced pr...
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Brew Day – 4/16/17 – Whirlwind Wheat

A new brew! This is my first attempt at a wheat beer and is also my first wheat recipe. 
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Stir Plate – initial build

The following is the first build of my stir plate. In this build I used a 25 ohm potentiometer as the calculated 84 ohm (100 ohm) was not available locally. Although the build was completed with this component, it will be replaced to allow the speed to reduced to zero rpm...
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WordPress HTTP Error when uploading images

After upgrading this site to WordPress 4.5 an HTTP error began to occur when uploading some images. I found the following defect, which has not been resolved at this time: Defect #36534 There are a couple of workarounds which can be attempted to resolved this issue. Add t...
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FamiPi Power Switch and shutdown handling: Part 2

In Part 1 we created the Arduino sketch and Python script to handle shutting down the Rpi gracefully. In Part 2 we will be prototyping the the circuits to make sure they work as expected.
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FamiPi Power Switch and shutdown handling: Part 1

Below is the start to my arduino nano based power circuit for Famicom based retro pie build. The goal of this Arduino sketch is to detect when the Super Famicom power switch state has changed and either power on the Rpi3 or tell the Rpi3 to shutdown and then  remove power...
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Some Photos

A place holder for some photos for later
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