The project is a low, slide out work bench. I just finished the build and install stages of creating this new work bench for my shop. Actually it is a work bench attachment that added a low level work area to my old large workbench. I posted the video above to You Tube to show how it works. Here is the link to the actual article I wrote for The Hobbyist’s Workshop as I was...
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Sandbox 13.04
Actually it is Sandbox running Ubuntu 13.04 but the result is the same. The operating system and the software are the heart of the system. The name sandbox can represent the hardware which seldom changes after the box is built. The update was flawless as thousands of files were downloaded and installed in their proper locations. This was a far better experience than I had with Fedora. I hope a Fedora fanatic reads this. Hmmm...
Continue reading...Weather Bugged
Here in Texas and in a lot of other places these days we all get severe weather. The job of the weather person is to try to scare the bejesus out of me in their reporting. Every storm is now “potentially dangerous” and is going to rip the roof of my house off or cause dangerous flooding. It’s like I have never lived through a storm and have no idea where I am living, like...
Continue reading...Digital Radio-active
Over the past weekend I dug out some of my old amateur radio gear and blew off the dust and wiped the grime. It was just setting on the shelf in the garage/workshop getting dirty. Some of it is my old digital packet radio equipment that I haven’t operated for years. The packet radios are mostly 2 meters (144 MHz) but I have one data transceiver that is on 440 MHz. I am not going...
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