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I’ll be covering the PiBox Development System and PiBox Media Center in overview, explaining what these are, how to use them and where they are going. I’ve got a set of slides and will demo the media center along with all the new features I added late this year. Basically […]

PiBox @ Colorado Springs Open Source Meetup

Thu December 29, 2016 in PiBox tagged colorado springs / meetup / Open Source / PiBox

Back in October I started work on a new app for PiBox: an XM radio player. The hardware is an XMPCR, a device sold in the early 2000’s that connected over USB to a PC. The device didn’t last long. I think there was some concern that people would steal […]

PiBox: XM radio app (PiXM) and wifi scanning in PNC

Wed December 14, 2016 in Audio / General / GTK+ / Hardware / Linux / PiBox / PiBox Network Config / PiClock / PiXM / Raspberry Pi / Software Development / XMPCR tagged Android / busybox / colorado springs / graphics / GTK+ / laptop / Linux / linux journal / Media Server / PiBox / Radio / Raspberry Pi / Roku / routers / signal / Sirius / ui components / video playback / video player / wifi / ximba / xm radio / xmpcr

It’s official: PiBox will be at the Colorado Springs Maker Faire on October 15th. The Maker Faire will be held at Library 21c which is just North of the Northeast corner of the Chapel Hills Mall. Last year saw around 6300 attendees and turnout is expected to be even better […]

PiBox @ CS Maker Faire, Oct 15th

Tue October 04, 2016 in General / Linux / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Software Development tagged colorado springs / Linux / Open Source / PBS / PiBox / projector / Raspberry Pi / system development / the Colorado Springs Maker Faire / X11

Last November I left CEI where I had worked for 8 1/2 years. I had plenty saved up to cover me to the next gig. So out went the resumes into the void and we waited for the holidays to pass to get an idea of how things have changed […]

Life update: new gig @ HGST

Fri February 06, 2015 in General / Personal tagged bootloader / colorado springs / disney / disneyworld / HGST / RPod

Here in the armpit of America known as Colorado Springs we have one cable provider, Comcast, at least in the area we live in. For the past four years we've had Extended Basic Cable service for about $50/month with no cable boxes required. Two xmas's ago our "big" projection TV […]

Comcast is going bye-bye

Tue April 27, 2010 in General / Personal / TV tagged basic cable / cable box / cable boxes / cable provider / ClearQAM / colorado springs / Comcast / digital broadcast / digital channels / digital signal / digital signals / DirectTV / graphics / PBS (updated 5665 days ago)

Long ago I slid my way into the Linux world by attending and taking an active part in two different Linux user groups in Denver. One of these is the Colorado Linux User Enthusiasts, or CLUE, which got its start in the south Denver metro area. This group remains very […]

An (oral) introduction to Asterisk – BLUG 1/8/09

Thu January 15, 2009 in Asterisk / Hardware / Linux tagged Asterisk / audio transcription / BLUG / Boulder / boulder linux users group / CLUE / CLUE-North / colorado springs / David Anselmi / Linux / livescribe / Open Source / PBX / recording / Sean Reifschneider / Writing

I’m a constant tinkerer on my computers. While I hate system administration I like to experiment with things. But a computer is a virtual world. What you get is visual and (in some cases) auditory. You don’t get a hands on feeling. You don’t really build something substantial. I think […]

makezine.tv: Getting my fix of hands on projects

Tue January 06, 2009 in dept 56 / Holiday lighting tagged colorado springs / dept 56 / dept56 / disney / disneyworld / electric light parade / electrical lighting / graphics / holiday / holiday theme / Make Magazine / makezine.tv / mickey and friends (updated 6046 days ago)

I finally upgraded to WordPress 2.7 for both my personal blog and my book (the Artist’s Guide to the GIMP) web site. As part of the upgrade I switched both sites to a new theme: ByteTips. This theme is extremely clean when viewed in Firefox and seems to work well […]