Site News and Updates

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28 Feb 2013 -- Isolated 24V Relay Controller Anyone else have a pile of relays in the parts bin with 24V coils? I do, so I've designed an isolated controller board that includes the power supply, current loop drive circuit, and a DIP16 footprint relay. Now I can make use of my large stock of relays without building a point-to-point power supply and controller every time. 03 Aug 2012 -- Quad Port Gigabit PCI Ethernet Card Roundup I was recently tasked with building a new pfSense box for the office. We needed three or four Ethernet ports, and wanted to use a 1U Intel Atom based server. Finding a quad port card was a little challenging, so here's a writeup on picking the right card for your build. 28 Jun 2012 -- Sabernetics I2C OLED Display Testing and Demo The Kickstarter-funded Sabernetics Technology OLED Display arrived yesterday. Before committing it to a project, I wanted to ensure the display was functional and get a feel for its daylight readability. The Bus Pirate was the obvious choice for prototyping. 20 Apr 2012 -- New Static Site Layout with Jekyll I finally finished rewriting the site using Jekyll, a blog-aware static site generator written in Ruby. Although the process required reformatting all existing site content, the move appears to have been well worth it! Expect a higher frequency of updates now that writing an article only involves creating a textfile and executing a script.

28 Feb 2013 -- Isolated 24V Relay Controller

Anyone else have a pile of relays in the parts bin with 24V coils? I do, so I've designed an isolated controller board that includes the power supply, current loop drive circuit, and a DIP16 footprint relay. Now I can make use of my large stock of relays without building a point-to-point power supply and controller every time.

03 Aug 2012 -- Quad Port Gigabit PCI Ethernet Card Roundup

I was recently tasked with building a new pfSense box for the office. We needed three or four Ethernet ports, and wanted to use a 1U Intel Atom based server. Finding a quad port card was a little challenging, so here's a writeup on picking the right card for your build.

28 Jun 2012 -- Sabernetics I2C OLED Display Testing and Demo

The Kickstarter-funded Sabernetics Technology OLED Display arrived yesterday. Before committing it to a project, I wanted to ensure the display was functional and get a feel for its daylight readability. The Bus Pirate was the obvious choice for prototyping.

20 Apr 2012 -- New Static Site Layout with Jekyll

I finally finished rewriting the site using Jekyll, a blog-aware static site generator written in Ruby. Although the process required reformatting all existing site content, the move appears to have been well worth it! Expect a higher frequency of updates now that writing an article only involves creating a textfile and executing a script.