Enabling File Extensions In Finder

I like to see the file extensions in Finder. I had to look up how to do this. Here’s how you do it: Go to Finder > Preferences… Then select...

Disabling Autocomplete In Atom

I use Atom. It’s kind of buggy, but I love it because of the customization options that you get with it. It definitely has some annoying bits though. I should...

Adding A Remote Theme To Your GitHub Pages Site

I’ll keep this one short and sweet since this process is pretty simple with Jekyll. On this website, I’m using the tale theme from Chester How. The readme on this...

Getting Started With GitHub Pages

I’m hoping to document the things that I set up for this blog well enough so that anyone trying to do the same things can struggle less than I did....

PCB Etching - Home Style

The instructable that I learned this from was pretty useful, but it left out a few things that I wanted to elaborate on. Supplies: A blank PCB (“copper clad”) to...

My Robot

So I’ve been working on a robot… I’ve succeeded at making it autonomous… kind of… well it works most of the time. Before about a week ago it was a...

Infrared Gap Counter

I wanted to enable my robot with a sense of distance. Luckily my robot has build in distance markers in its tank treads. There are little gaps in the treads...

GPS Clock using ArduPilot and EM-406

So we got tired of not being able to see what time it was when we were watching movies/shows on Netflix. We could have just bought a clock, but where’s...

Using the Pocket Progmammer with ATMega328p

I thought that I would have to learn AVR code in order to program my ATMega328P micro. Then I got to reading on the arduino.cc website and found out that...

Raspberry Pi and Arduino: Serial Communication Over GPIO pins

I recently received a Raspberry Pi from a friend and I wanted to see if I could tie it to one of my Arduino boards without using a USB cable....

The Lexmark X125 Printer’s LCD

I took another printer off of my stack yesterday. This one happened to be a Lexmark X125. My original intent was to turn it into a PCB printer, but after...

Salvaging a Brother printer’s LCD

I’ve recently acquired a few printers for salvaging the stepper motors out of them. In taking one apart (specifically a Brother MFC-5860CN), I found that the LCD had a 6...

Oven Light Buzzer

Watching the preheat light on your oven and waiting for it to go off is sooo much work (yes I am extremely lazy). A lot of modern ovens have a...