Travel, Code, and Engineering


Modifying a Laptop for Improved Cooling

My aging laptop was having trouble keeping up. It slowed to a crawl. Even opening up more than one tab in Chrome seemed to be too much for it. That's when I decided to take things into my own hands...


Raspberry Pi Projects You Can Actually Do - Part Four: Home Automation with Siri and a Raspberry Pi

It's been my dream for a long time to be able to control the lights in my house from anywhere in the world. Now I can do that without breaking the bank. Using a Raspberry Pi, some Etekcity Remote...


Debugging the BarStack Windows App

I wrote the BarStack Windows App way back in 2014 when Windows 8 was brand new. Windows 8.1 hadn't been released yet, and "Metro" style apps had just been rebranded as "Windows Store" apps....


Raspberry Pi Projects You Can Actually Do - Part Three: Dynamic DNS

If you have any reason to want to connect to your Raspbery Pi when you're away from home, you're going to want a dynamic DNS address. A dynamic DNS address lets you use a constant address like...


American vs. Korean Periodic Table

Everyone uses the table of elements, but not everyone calls the elements the same thing. For example, in the UK, the element with atomic number 13 is called "aluminium", whereas in the USA, it's...