Category: Learning

Make an Arduino TV B-Gone

Posted by Mike Murray | Last updated Dec 15, 2019 | Arduino Projects, Electronics, Learning | 0

Building a Breadboard Synthesizer With a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino Uno

by Mike Murray | Last updated Jun 8, 2021 | Arduino Projects, Learning, Raspberry Pi Projects | 0

There’s a lazy stereotype about middle-aged men that says that all we want to do is tinker with...

OpenVPN MTU: Finding the Correct Settings

by Mike Murray | Mar 20, 2021 | Computers, Learning | 0

Finding correct OpenVPN MTU and MSSFIX settings can really drive you batty. No really. It’s...

How Stepper Motors Work

by Mike Murray | Last updated Feb 14, 2021 | Electronics, Learning | 1

Stepper motors are used in so many things you buy today and most people don’t even know it!...

Raspberry Pi Unifi Controller Setup

by Mike Murray | Feb 12, 2021 | Computers, Learning, Raspberry Pi Projects | 1

Ubiquiti (and their Unifi gear) have become my go to for just about anything network related....

Raspberry Pi Syslog Server Setup

by Mike Murray | Last updated Feb 11, 2021 | Learning, Raspberry Pi Projects | 1

In this fun tutorial we’re going learn how to setup a Raspberry Pi syslog server using a...

Replicating a Synology to my Brother’s House

by Mike Murray | May 23, 2020 | Computers, Learning | 10

I back up a lot of my smaller items to an AWS S3 bucket. Unfortunately, AWS can be a super...

Setup a Raspberry Pi Minecraft Server

by Mike Murray | Last updated Feb 28, 2021 | Learning, Raspberry Pi Projects | 4

Minecraft is more fun when you have a server to play on. With a Minecraft server up and running,...

VPN between Friends and Family (VPN Between Houses)

by Mike Murray | Last updated Mar 23, 2021 | Computers, Learning | 25

After publishing my updated home network tour article, many of you asked to know more about my...

Tour of My Home Network (2020 Update)

by Mike Murray | Last updated Apr 18, 2020 | Computers, Electronics, Home Automation, Learning | 23

About three years ago I did a tour of my home network (old tour) and it turned out to be one of my...

How to Build a Raspberry Pi Weather Station

by Mike Murray | Last updated Mar 24, 2020 | Learning, Raspberry Pi Projects | 2

How’s the weather? With this DIY project, you’ll always have a very precise answer....

Block .DS_Store Files on a Synology NAS

by Mike Murray | Mar 1, 2020 | Computers, Learning | 4

If you’re like most system administrators who have a mixed Windows, Linux, and Mac...

The Best GPIO Tutorial for Raspberry Pi that We Could Write

by Mike Murray | Last updated Feb 29, 2020 | Learning, Raspberry Pi Projects | 2

You can do a lot with a Raspberry Pi even if you limit yourself to what comes on the board. But if...

Category: Learning

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