My First 40
A QAZ Hull or Qull. I put the dasher caps on it and as expected there’s no split space that works It took a bit to figure out how to… Read more »
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Don Juan Words
After reading the major works of Byron I went back and read Don Juan again as the most enjoyable and memorable of his works. I haven’t yet read any of… Read more »
Chevy Volt 2012 vs 2017
I upgraded my 2012 Volt for a 2017 Volt today. The Volt is the best car I have ever owned and the decision to get a new one was… Read more »
Solar Production November 2015
Mostly a placeholder to keep some graphs as the Enphase site doesn’t keep them long.
Books From the 80s
Recorded in a journal: Kafka The Trial 10/1/1986 Tao of Pooh 10/1/1986 Kafka The Castle 10/1/1986 Heinlin The Cat Who Walked Through Walls 1/1/1987 Camus The Stranger 2/1/1987 Gibson… Read more »
Lithium Charging Curve
This is the first charge of the new battery pack using the cells from the Chevy Volt. Generally it charged perfectly except that it never reached the Vhi cutoff voltage… Read more »
Raspberry Pi Stepper Motor
In preparation for the pi class I wanted to get a motor running and found this excellent tutorial: http://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2012/07/stepper-motor-control-in-python/ It works great once I realized the motor has a 64:1… Read more »
About home.newts.org
home.newts.org is a tiny Raspberry Pi Linux computer. Currently it runs pyweather to connect my Davis Vantage Pro2 weather station to wunderground.com. It also runs my tf mud client in… Read more »
Homestuck Words
This isn’t a book but not sure what it really is at all but here’s some words: Captchalogue Sburb Fetch Modi Equip Sylladex Pesterchum
Radiation, yes indeed!
There’s stuff being circulated on FB now about radiation levels from Fukushima increasing in the US and about the EPA (Obama!) raising their safety limit instead of dealing alerting people… Read more »