Undocumented Code

Random stuff to do with hardware and software that generally comes from salvaged electronics that never really deserved to be salvaged and weird software stuff.

Thursday, May 31, 2018

Make A Slackbot From a Google Spreadsheet

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In this episode of "probably useless", I'll quickly write about how to make a SlackBot that runs in the cloud using data from ...

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Some Comments on Comments

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Code comments. You probably have an opinion on when, how, or if they should be used. To me, this debate is as heated as "tabs or spaces...

Monday, April 30, 2018

One Weird Motherboard and its Three Friends

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A while ago I picked up a very interesting looking motherboard. I had never seen something with its configuration. It has many USB ports - s...

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Making a Smart Speaker - Part 5

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Calvin is coming together. The software is moving along slowly, but I think it's time to assemble Calvin so there's only a single ca...

Thursday, March 29, 2018

An Interesting Laptop Makes A Good Emulation Station

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I'm all about breathing new life into devices that just sit on a shelf and wait for the day they'll get recycled. I'm not trying...

Monday, March 5, 2018

Designing and Building a File Vault Part Two: My Turn

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So I built my parent's file vault/media center a few months ago and it was a big hit. UPS was pretty rough with shipping it, but a littl...

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Toggle Switch to Pulse Conversion Circuit

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For my next computer build - my filevault and media server - I wanted to take a less microcontrollery way to turn the computer on and off. M...

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