http://www.port8080.net/A mishmash of thing from the days of my life.enWed, 09 Oct 2019 20:11:19 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://www.port8080.net/posts/posting-again/fbus<div><p>I'm posting again after a long while. I'm not terribly good about updating this website, but I'll hopefully get better. This long overdue post was spawned due to a recent creating of a couple of repositories on GitHub. These two repositories are <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/dwilliams/ole-radio-input-switch">https://github.com/dwilliams/ole-radio-input-switch</a> and <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/dwilliams/pcb-things">https://github.com/dwilliams/pcb-things</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.port8080.net/posts/posting-again/">Read more…</a> (4 min remaining to read)</p></div>pcbradiotiminghttp://www.port8080.net/posts/posting-again/Wed, 09 Oct 2019 19:19:52 GMThttp://www.port8080.net/posts/battery-bank-one/fbus<div><p>I decided to put the batteries of a few (nine or so) uninterruptable power supplies to work doind something more useful than self-discharging in my crawl space.</p> <p><a href="http://www.port8080.net/posts/battery-bank-one/">Read more…</a> (4 min remaining to read)</p></div>batteryslasolarhttp://www.port8080.net/posts/battery-bank-one/Fri, 01 Jul 2016 16:00:01 GMThttp://www.port8080.net/posts/just-made-general/fbus<div><p>Just wanted to say that I took the technician and general license tests and have passed. I'll update this post in a couple of weeks once I get my call sign.</p> <p>Update: My callsign is "KE0FNS".</p></div>DEF CONradiohttp://www.port8080.net/posts/just-made-general/Sat, 08 Aug 2015 18:44:52 GMThttp://www.port8080.net/posts/modifying-a-yaesu-vx-3r-for-def-con/fbus<div><p>I'm sitting here in Las Vegas waiting for a friend to finish his booth duty at BlackHat. A number of groups here at DEF CON have radio repeaters setup in the 70 cm and the General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) / Family Radio Service (FRS) bands. While I have little to do, I figured I'd turn my Yaesu VX-3R into an "experimental" radio and unlock the ability to transmit in the GMRS / FRS bands.</p> <p><a href="http://www.port8080.net/posts/modifying-a-yaesu-vx-3r-for-def-con/">Read more…</a> (3 min remaining to read)</p></div>DEF CONradioYaesuhttp://www.port8080.net/posts/modifying-a-yaesu-vx-3r-for-def-con/Wed, 05 Aug 2015 19:51:09 GMThttp://www.port8080.net/posts/sparcserver5-and-wyse30/fbus<div><p>I found an old Sun Microsystems SparcServer5 the other day when helping my parent clean out their shed. Connect to this a Wyse30 terminal that I had picked up, install OpenBSD and Python, connect it to the network, and enjoy a shiny old home automation interface.</p> <p><a href="http://www.port8080.net/posts/sparcserver5-and-wyse30/">Read more…</a> (8 min remaining to read)</p></div>ha-stsOpenBSDSparcSunWysehttp://www.port8080.net/posts/sparcserver5-and-wyse30/Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:57:44 GMThttp://www.port8080.net/posts/curses-interface-for-home-automation/fbus<div><p>As an anachronistic hardware junkie, I decided to make the main control panel for my home automation system a curses based interface. I'm writing the interface in Python and running it on OpenBSD so I can use modern interfaces to the rest of the system, but the interface will be displayed on a Wyse30 terminal connected to a SparcServer 5.</p> <p><a href="http://www.port8080.net/posts/curses-interface-for-home-automation/">Read more…</a> (1 min remaining to read)</p></div>ha-stsOpenBSDPythonhttp://www.port8080.net/posts/curses-interface-for-home-automation/Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:47:27 GMT