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Not everything needs a microprocessor

Not everything needs a microprocessor

Posted on 15th Mar 2023

I was skiing in Colorado most of February and one simple thing I need is a way to heat up ski boots just to make them easier to get on.

Playing with Chromebook

Playing with Chromebook

Posted on 18th Jan 2023

I'm going on an extended trip, so I decided to leave my heavy Dell laptop at home. Since I won't be doing any code development, I decided to give a Chromebook a try. They are light, do email and web surfing. So I've been trying to do all the things I might normally do on my PC on the Chromebook. So far so good.

Switch to Stripe

Switch to Stripe

Posted on 28th Dec 2022

About this time of year is when I monkey with the web site. This time I am thinking of switching out of OScommerce and PayPal to Stripe. It was easy to setup, maybe not all the features I want, but close enough for now

Add baud settings in Linux

Posted on 27th Dec 2022

Got a request for allowing baud rate changes in Linux. Seems like for at least the USB com ports Tcl supports that. So here is a one-liner change to TclTerm to allow baud settings in TclTerm. It worked on Linux Mint on my HP netbook. Download and unzip from here

Win XP not dead yet

Win XP not dead yet

Posted on 16th Jun 2022

I had a customer order some ARMstamps, and was trying to get them to run on a Win XP machine. As those devices were designed about 10 years after support for XP ended, I wasn't sure whether NXP ever tested that driver for XP. Also I had long since cleaned up by tossing old Win XP machines, or converting them to Linux.

Coridium LLC has a new CAGE code

Posted on 6th Jun 2022

Our move to FL is almost complete, almost all unpacked and stored away somewhere where we can find it. In addition we were just granted a new CAGE code, 9AYV1 .