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I’ve been spending a lot of time watching Terrain building on Youtube, and Black Magic Craft has some bad ass videos!

I wasn’t completely satisfied how my paper craft shipping container came out.

I’ve been wanting to play some Star Wars Legion , but don’t have a lot of large terrain to make the matches interesting.

With the release of Blender 2.8 I figured it was time to dive back in and see what all the hype was about.

Lately, I’ve been playing a bit of The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game by Fantasy Flight .

After seeing a lot of people in the community building either digital tables or boxes I decided to give it a shoot.

After picking up D&D Dungeons & Dragons - Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica I quickly realized how easy it would be to use Magic Inspiration for the Ravnica setting.

Recently I’ve spent a bit time reading some of Dragon+ Magazine articles, one particularly grabbed my attention.

As you may be aware the Dungeon Brawl application I’ve been working on defines monsters in YaML format (check out the data/monsters directory) .

Well it’s been a little over two week and the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B weather station has held up; figured now would be a good time to go a little deeper into the setup.

Got around to upgrading my Raspberry Pi 3 Model B weather station with a newer version of Grafana, the Debian packages for ARM are hosted on Grafana’s download page under ARMv7 .

I’ve seen it before, a customer deletes a file and then needs it restored.

In order to re-familiarize myself with MongoDB I decided to write a little web application utilizing it as a backend datastore.

This month I went from owning an iPhone to an Android, I also decided to freshen up on the new hotness in the Android development realm.

This weekend I took a bit of time to read up on OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) , I wanted to capture images of Magic the Gathering cards, then identify them using a Python library called ImageHash .

After being alerted for elevated cpu on a staging mysql instance, I logged into the mysql console and ran a SHOW PROCESS LIST : SHOW PROCESSLIST\G *************************** 1. row *************************** Id: 1 User: my_user Host: x.x.x.x:xxx db: my_…

Setup First thing I tackled was setting up the L293D H-Bridge on the Bread Board.

Many of you may remember playing with a Simon Electronic Memory Game when you were younger, you know something that looks like this: At it’s core the game is rather simple, the device lights up random colors, and you need to repeat the pattern.

I’ve done a little bit of reading on the ReadAnalogVoltage of Arduino’s home page, and they give a straight forward way to read voltage from an analog pin.

While looking for datasets to throw at sklearn , I came across UCI Sentiment Labelled Sentences Data Set.

In my previous post " Python Machine Learning with Presidential Tweets “, I started messing around with sklearn and text classification.

I’ve been spending a little bit of time researching Machine Learning , and was very happy to come across a Python library called sklearn .

About a week ago I worked on SensorTag metrics .

While at the electronics store the other day, I noticed they had motion detectors on sale for only $4.

Now that I’ve got my hands on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Motherboard , I decided nows a good time to play around with the 16x2 LCD Module Controller HD44780 I had laying around (I’ve had this thing since December 2015).

I wanted to wrap up my previous post TI SensorTag Temperature Readings ) with a little python example, thus this write is going to be short and sweet.

As I’ve been playing around with Telegraf and Grafana , I’ve noticed CPU interrupts and context switches are not apart of the standard metric gathering.

Recently, while talking with a some techies I was asked to explain how traceroute works.

Lets throw security out the window for a moment.

Wanted to expand a little on my previous blog post Custom Telegraf Plugin , and decided to do a simple battery monitor.

I just started looking to InfluxDB and Telegraf for collecting data on a Linux machine, then visualizing it with Grafana .

If you ever want to quickly check the expiration date on your HTTPS server’s SSL certificate all you need is OpenSSL , luckily most of your Linux and OSX workstations will already have it installed. openssl s_client -showcerts -connect **domain.com**:443…

PostgreSQL does have a built in auto vacuum , but sometimes you just want a small script that can be ran through Jenkins to perform the vacuum for you.

Using my first generation Raspberry Pi and a few USB / analog devices, i’ve been able to create (a rather slow) cleverbot voice communicator.

Well the kids have lost interest in Raspberry Pi Python programming for now, but look who’s still at it!

I’ve been at it again with GeoDjango , this time I’ve pulled data on all Taco Bells locations from a popular social media site, took that data and added to a Django project, and finally plotted them in a view using Google Maps : Wow, that is a lot of Taco…

Just recently I found myself playing with GeoDjango , I’ve been using it on both a Ubuntu 14.04 cloud server and a Macbook Pro (OS X El Capitan).

If you have a multi-environment AWS setup, and want a easy way to resolve all EC2 instance using Route53 DNS, look no further!

Lately I’ve been working a lot with Mono , and building C# applications on Linux.

Elasticsearch is a distributed RESTFul search tool over the HTTP protocol.

Needed a good Mid Range disc to go along wit my Innova Boss (driver) and Innova Aviar (Putter), a veteran disc golfer in the shop suggested the Discraft Buzz ,Innova Roc3, and this Innova Spider.

I’ve been playing a little bit of Hearthstone lately, and heard the Mage is one of the best for arena.

Picked up Volume 3 of Saga last night, this has been a fantastic graphic novel and I would recommend it!

My son asked the other night if hacking computers really worked like on television, and if numbers/words really flashed across the screen.

This has been one of the processes I’ve normally not solved in a clean or readable way.

So you may have looked at /proc/net/route before and thought how the heck am I suppose to read this.

A dish we normally eat once a week is spaghetti and meat sauce; however, since we have been eating vegan we needed to substitute the meat sauce, as well as egg pasta.

Day 3 of eating vegan and we still have Pizza and Beer, eating vegan isn’t as hard as you may think!