TES V1 – Traveling Entertainment System

Overview Since I travel a bunch for work, and spend a lot of time in hotels I decided to build this setup. It has a router/access point, a phone in tethered mode, USB Charger, and a PI that can be connected to any TV.                   The Plan At the start, I wanted something that did the following: 1. Stream Read More…

FTP Is 50 Today…

April 16th, 1971 RFC959 (you may know it as FTP) was born, making it 50 years old today. Even though it is that old and there are serious security concerns, there are still numerous FTP servers running. For example (Pulled from Shodan): United States 736,721 Japan 285,691 China 284,550 Germany 280,699 Russian Federation 151,815 Let’s look just into the United States numbers on Read More…

The Process Of Making Things.

What do you want to build? Anyone and everyone can build something. The first step though is to decide what you want to make. It could be as simple or complex as needed to achieve what you want. It could be mechanical, cosplay, baking: anything your mind can make up! Once you have an idea, start jotting down what you want to do and figure out your process. I’m going to talk through what I doRead More…

Why I Started Using “Poop” As Variable

Not very many are going to understand this unless they’ve worked at a startup or at a company that pushes their workers to get code working with very little testing. The “poop” variable in coding is very funny and very real. I personally started using this out of anger and i know other programmers have done the same. Several companies ago I was pushed to build something per customer expectatRead More…