Syonyk's Project Blog

Some while back, I tossed in a (little noticed) comment at the end of a post that we'd obtained a Chevy Volt.  We picked up a used 2012 Volt with under 30k miles, and have been using it quite a bit, because, well, it's our car.
Since it's my blog and I can post what I want, I've decided to talk about the Volt for a while.  I think it's the "sweet spot" for electric transportation at this point in time, I think it's rather significantly more environmentally friendly than a pure...

You can never have too many shelves.  A while back, I built some shelves for the end of my shipping container.  Recently, I've built hanging shelves for the side of my shipping container - and then built some for our church's shipping container as well...

I admit to an odd enjoyment of making old, slow hardware (or new, slow hardware) into something useful.  I've been making very good progress on the front of "Making usable desktops out of things people think are too slow."  Raspberry Pi 3s, Jetson Nanos...

Sometimes, "smart" isn't the right answer.  Sometimes, dumb brute force is the right answer to a problem - and I've been having problems with USB power lately.  Over the past year, playing around with Raspberry Pi 3s and Jetson Nanos, I've learned that...