DIY Repair/Upgrade: 6v Flashlight Repair and LED/LiFePO4 UpgradeRepairing and converting an old alkaline powered flashlight to LiFePO4Dec 15, 2024Dec 15, 2024
DIY Solar Powered Window Air Conditioner: Part 6, ReengineeringPeltier modules are really neat. Put some electricity, one side gets hot and the other side gets cold. One little module can easily freeze…Nov 28, 202411Nov 28, 202411
Survival Bannock: 1000 Calorie Scottish Waybread (Gluten Free).Learning to make survival foods for camping, outside work, or other trekking is important. Sedentary lives have taught us to not try not to…Nov 23, 2024Nov 23, 2024
Piper: CLI LLM Text to Speech on UbuntuPiper is a really amazing Text-to-Speech project for making your LLM able to talk. I had some initial difficulty using piper on my Ubuntu…Nov 4, 2024Nov 4, 2024
DIY Solar Powered Hot Water Heater: Peltiers work great for heating!The Peltier isn’t a good cooler, it’s is a pretty good DIY offgrid heat pump with minimal moving parts that’s easily repaired and serviced…Oct 20, 20241Oct 20, 20241
Published inAI AdvancesAI: Sometimes replacing a human is a VERY good thing.Meta, Anthropic, Alibaba, Mistral, and other companies have been releasing open source Large Language Models (LLM/AI) for the last couple…Sep 26, 202417Sep 26, 202417
DIY Solar Powered Window Air Conditioner: Part 5, Phase Change Material Heat BatteryCan we use a Phase Change material to store heat from the room?Sep 15, 2024Sep 15, 2024
DIY Solar Powered Window Air Conditioner: Part 4, Upgrade to 48v/Smoke TestLet’s make some upgrades to the Solar Peltier System. Since starting this project, I’ve learned a lot about planning power budgets, how…Aug 24, 2024Aug 24, 2024
DIY Repair/Upgrade: 12v Power Drill Battery ReplacementWhy throw away a good drill because the batteries die? Meet my old Black and Decker 12v Matrix Lithium drill (BDCDMT112) that was nearly…Aug 12, 2024Aug 12, 2024
The Perfect Date Night — Snack Tray and Couch Co-Op.A tray of snacks and couch co-op video games has been a long standing “date night” tradition of ours for almost 30 years.Aug 11, 2024Aug 11, 2024