Engineering
Hardware Hacking the Motorola Radius R100 Repeater
Here’s an album of pics of me (KC3ASF) and /u/bondiblueos9 (N3WCC/AE) working on the repeater. (http://imgur.com/a/feKLz). We used information from repeater builder and this index had good guides, as well as PDFs of the service manuals. Finding the actual software was a little more difficult. I got a bit brave and downloaded it…
Read More »Building a website with no experience or budget
I build websites for a living. I mostly get paid to build websites for people. However there are a lot of people who either arent able to afford my services, or they’re interested more in my advice about how to build a website themselves. There are a lot of free…
Read More »Why I Hate Apps
I absolutely loathe and detest the word “App”. Whenever anybody says it I die a little bit inside. It’s very similar to how I used to feel about the term “Web 2.0”. Apps are just the current fad. I’m constantly bombarded by articles about some asshole or other who made…
Read More »Putting Together A Computer From Parts
When I was younger, one of my first forays into computer technology was building a desktop with my father. We did research and looked up all of the parts, figured out what we wanted to buy, purchased a case, the parts, and put it together over a weekend. Building your…
Read More »How Websites Generate Revenue
The internet is and has been a gold rush. For the past decade and a half, huge fortunes have been made and lost online. There’s the monsters, like Google and Facebook, and then there’s the individual millionaires. The supposed stay-at-home moms who make six figure salaries online. This post will…
Read More »A New Type Of Yellow Pages
I remember before google, and before we took the internet seriously, if I wanted to find a local company like an Ice Cream store, I would check the Yellow Pages. Once in the Yellow Pages, I’d go through the list of phone numbers and call each one until I came…
Read More »Tracking Pageviews On Craigslist
I’ve recently been forced to put my 2001 Toyota MR2 Spyder up for sale. I decided that the easiest place to put it up would be to put it up on Craigslist. Obviously the cost/benefit analysis of posting on craigslist is definitely worth it. I could have my car ad…
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