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    My expanding collection of projects as I experiment with electronics, radios, and networks.

    My interests span across many different areas and the number of my ongoing projects continue to expand.  Many of these articles are created as a reference as I attempt to figure things out, work on new ideas, and expand my knowledge.  In my home electronics lab, I work on many things such as raspberry pi, arduinos, electronic kit building, various types of radios including ham radio, computers, programming, and network security.  Outside in the garage workshop I enjoy woodworking, fixing and breaking things, locksmithing, and generally working with tools.  Just like my life, this site is every changing with new ideas and projects.

     

  • APRS through the ISS with Kenwood TH-D72a radio
    Digipeating APRS packets via the ISS using a Kenwood TH-D72a HT Radio Send APRS packets without the use of software, through the International Space Station The Kenwood TH-D72a HT is a versatile hand held ham radio, with its built in TNC, allows you to play with APRS locally as well as through space.
  • Network switch port blinker - Identify switch ports with Windows batch file
    Windows Network Switch Port Blinker Windows laptop running a batch file to identify remote network switch ports Using a Windows laptop, and a simple batch file written with notepad, I was able to map out many network drops.
  • DHCP IP, Mac Address and Hostname Sniffer On Raspberry Pi 2
    View DHCP Request IP Addresses and Client Mac Addresses in real time Raspberry Pi 2, Nokia 5110 LCD to display DHCP IP's, Mac Addresses, and Hostnames Portable and extremely useful tool to see the newest client on a DHCP network...The DHCP-Snooper
  • Raspberry Pi and Behringer x32 Mixer to control On-Air Sign
    Raspberry Pi and a Behringer x32 Mixer controls an OnAir Sign Polling channel status on the mixer over the local network to turn on / off sign I was working on a side project for a small TV studio and they needed a way to automate their on-air sign, Pi to the rescue....
  • Nokia 5110 LCD Backlight To Ground Using GPIO
    Nokia 5110 LCD Backlight that requires ground Use GPIO on Raspberry Pi to turn it on and off Many times the Nokia 5110 LCD backlight is turned on with 3.3V (a current source), but many of the low cost LCDs from eBay are wired as common anode, meaning you need to apply a Ground (a current sink) in order to light the backlight.
  • Freeswitch 1.7 + Raspberry Pi 2 = VoIP Sip Server
    FreeSWITCH 1.7 Installed on Raspberry Pi 2 Installing, Compiling and running FreeSWITCH on the Pi 2 The long and awaited for... FreeSWITCH 1.7 running on a Raspberry Pi 2 guide.
  • Nokia 5110 LCD on Raspberry Pi
    Raspberry Pi and a Nokia 5110 LCD Wiring, Configuring, and Testing a Nokia 5110 LCD on the Pi $3 monochrome LCD's for feedback, information, and real-time stats installed on a raspberry pi
  • Samba Change Shares Real Time smb.conf
    Change Samba shares automatically with python Only share the directories with samba that have specific video files I share files to my media player with samba.  My problem was that my media player doesn't tell me if each directory is empty or actually has videos.
  • SIPml5 Installed on Raspberry Pi 2 Asterisk Server
    SIPml5 running on my Asterisk / FreePBX Raspberry Pi 2 server WebRTC calling directly on my Asterisk Server I built an Asterisk / FreePBX server on my Raspberry Pi 2 using the RasPBX image.  Today I installed and modified SIPml5 to auto register when ever I log in.
  • WebRTC / Asterisk Support Guide
    WebRTC / Asterisk 11 / FreePBX testing Raspberry Pi 2 WebRTC and websockets support for Asterisk and Freepbx I needed to interface my Asterisk server with WebRTC, using the RasPBX image on my Raspbeery Pi 2, I was able to successfully call to and from a WebRTC client on the web to my SIP client on my Android
  • Asterisk + FreePBX + Raspberry Pi 2 = VoIP Sip Server
    Asterisk and FreePBX Raspberry Pi 2 Install Asterisk with FreePBX installed on a Raspberry Pi 2, gives me a small, VoIP server that I can use for all my telephony needs. I needed a small footprint, portable VoIP system for some R&D SIP work, and with RasPBX, this solution works out better than I expected.
  • Pcap capture : View SSID AP names in Wireshark
    Pcap capture files : Viewing BSSID/SSID names Using Wireshark, and some of its features to dig in and analyze Pcap capture files Finding out what SSID's were captured by viewing them using tools such as Wireshark.
  • Pcap capture : Extract SSID AP names
    Pcap capture files : Extracting BSSID/SSID names Using tcpdump, pyrit, and other tools to dig in and analyze Pcap capture files Finding out what SSID's were captured by filtering them out using tools such as tcpdump and pyrit.
  • Pcap vs Pcapng : File Information and Convert
    Pcap and Pcapng : Determining the difference in the capture file and converting it Exploring magic numbers, capinfos, hexdump, editcap and wireshark Finding out what type of capture file you have, what the differences are and converting them to utilize different tools for analysis.  I've been capturing files using a number of tools recently (scapy, tcpdump, wireshark, dumpcap, etc) and once I began using different methods to analyse my capture files, I began learning and understanding about pcap and pcapng files formats and their differences.
  • SickRage + Sabnzbd + Raspberry Pi = TVPi Part 2
    Installing SickRage and Sabnzbd on your Raspberry Pi, PART 2 of 2 Easy Step-by-step illustrated guide to setting up a Raspberry Pi with SickRage and Sabnzbd Part 2 of 2 of the SickRage & Sabnzbd installation tutorial on a Raspberry Pi.