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• December 26, 2011

  Soldering for Family Harmony

  Santa brought the boys two Tonka Ricochet Replay R/C cars on Sunday, a blue/green one for Zane and a yellow/red one for Aidan. Unfortunately, only Zane’s worked, putting a damper on Aidan’s Christmas, since Zane was having too much fun to share.We...

• November 21, 2009

  OpenWrt on Actiontec GT701-WG

  Couldn’t put OpenWrt on my Goodwill Linksys WRT54G v8, but it turns out it will run on my old Qwest DSL modem, an Actiontec GT701-WG.OpenWrt holds a lot of promise, so it was worth it to me to try to get it working, especially since I had a good c...

• November 18, 2009

  Linksys WRT54G v8: Ifos Fail, Wireless Bridge Win!

  Pushing on with OpenWRT as a framework on which to build an Ifos server/master control program, I popped down to the local Goodwill to scrounge a cheap router. I new they had a pile of them, having donated a few myself.I guess a lot of people had ...

• November 15, 2009

  TINI Disappointments

  Spent some time over the weekend on an Ifos master control program targeting TINI. It’s a Java app wrapped around a tiny [sic] built-in web server and works great so far.Well, I should qualify that. It works great until I run it on the TINI. Being...

• November 03, 2009

  Jamod Control of Ifos Successful

  I am finally able to demonstrate direct jamod control of Ifos.Long story short: I built this embedded device that I wanted to string together with others of its kind, then control via Modbus. I wrote a Modbus server to run on the device, and up un...