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Mike is the founder of The Geek Pub. A jack of all trades who simply enjoys the challenge creating things, whether from wood, metal, or from lines of code in a computer. Mike has created all kinds of projects that you can follow and build yourself, from many different styles of retro arcade cabinets to Arduino and Raspberry Pi projects.
Filler Primer is one of those things that once you learn about it you’ll wonder why you never used it before! Filler primer is a thicker primer that fills in scratches and uneven surfaces before painting. It’s perfect for places like the cut edges of MDF and plywood. Once filled and sanded it will be […]
When I built my new home a while back we decided to build it with cabling for video surveillance. We had our builder run Category 5e (Cat5e) cables to locations we thought would be ideal for cameras on the outside of the home, and on the inside in areas that we did not consider “private […]
If you’re like me you’ve tried a to find a pfSense Road Warrior configuration for IPSec that actually works and you’ve banged your head against the wall for hours because its one giant problem after another. Every pfSense mobile configuration on the pfSense site has a different box checked and every website has a different […]
Update: The contest is now closed and the winners have been notified via email. An announcement will be made on a future Pub Talk episode! Stay tuned! Twenty Five Thousands of you have have become raving fans of The Geek Pub and clicked my subscribe button on YouTube! So many of you have also followed me […]
Have you ever wanted to install a hidden wall safe? Every home should have at least one. A safe is a great place to keep valuables that burglars are after during a home burglary. Safes come in all varieties of shapes and sizes, and you can find one for almost any application. One of my […]
pfSense is probably the best open source firewall/router software package I have ever used. It’s packed full of professional feature sets and has a very polished and clean user interface (web based GUI). And its FREE. That’s right. It’s 100% free (you can buy a support agreement if you want to). pfSense will run on […]
When FiOS was first launched by Verizon it was a glorious time. The city I live in (Keller, TX) was the first city in the nation to get FiOS! It was fantastic. The fastest stuff on the block was DSL from Verizon or AT&T at 1.5Mb/s down and 128 Kb/s up and it wasn’t reliable […]
The story of installing a home network rack in our house is a great one, but first you need to know the backstory! When we built our new home a year ago (we started it in 2013) one of the things that was very important to me was that the home was designed with structured […]
Most coin mechanisms operate on the same principles as the buttons and the joysticks. Once the coin passes through the mechanism successfully, the coin triggers a micro-switch as it exits the coin mech and falls into the coin tray. For coin mechs that have two quarter slots (or quarter and token) there are two micro-switches. […]
To connect the arcade controls to the Pi (or your PC) you’re going to need a USB encoder. These encoders convert the presses of the buttons into keystrokes on an keyboard that MAME and other emulators can understand. Read More… Join The Geek Pub Guild!