Category: Technical Articles

June 24, 2019 / Alex Whittemore / Electronics

Adventure with a Cheap Amazon Temperature Controller

The post below actually started as an Amazon review for this product. A few months…

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April 8, 2019 / Alex Whittemore / Technical Articles

An Investigation of Accuracy and Calibration of the VLP-16 Puck LIDAR

A quick note: This article war originally written in February 2018, so some of the…

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January 10, 2019 / Alex Whittemore / Projects

How to Model Based On Complex Existing Geometry in Fusion 360 (Or Go Mad Trying)

For years now, I’ve had an Android tablet mounted (semi)permanently in my car. It’s been…

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November 2, 2018 / Alex Whittemore / Electronics

Hackaday Supercon Badge Hacking

The Hackaday Superconference is this weekend, and the badge looks dope. Here’s some material for…

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October 13, 2018 / Alex Whittemore / iPhone Technical Articles

Is Your iPhone 6S Overheating?

It’s been a long week of power problems with my consumer electronics. This one’s been…

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October 10, 2018 / Alex Whittemore / Technical Articles

Diagnosing and Curing Surface Pro 4 Insomnia

Among the handful of machines I use on a daily basis is a Surface Pro 4 that’s mostly sat docked at my desk all day since I finally upgraded my 2011 to the newest 2018 MacBook Pro. Lately, I’ve noticed it behaving poorly in sleep mode. This morning, I sat down to figure out why.

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September 11, 2018 / Alex Whittemore / General Rambling