Duncan Tempelmeyer KE5RCC

Useless Machine!

Duncan — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:26:21 +0000

This makes me quite happy, and is quite useless. Watch the video it will all make sense. I made this using just a box, modified servo, 2 switches, some wire, and batteries.

Dusting off the cobwebs…

Duncan — Mon, 10 May 2010 03:03:07 +0000

It seems that it has been a little bit over a month since I’ve last been here. So here is a brief summary of everything that has happened in said month; Rocky and I are back together, I got more crap for the house, I’ve cleaned the house, I do quite a bit of volunteer work at the community theater (lights to be exact), I’ve acquired some free servers from an undisclosed source (no they weren’t stolen), I now have insurance, and a small raise to pay for the insurance (thanks Keith!), there is a large pile of dirt in my front yard…you get the point. Anyway, some pictures of my lovely desk now that I have my computer working again.

Duncan — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 06:21:21 +0000

Duncan — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:19:57 +0000

New toys!

Duncan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:38:49 +0000

So I went into Frys Electronics with $3000 cash in my pocket, but managed to come out with $1900. I bought me a HD projector, projector mount, projector screen, 25 ft DVI cable, and a DVI to HDMI adapter. Shortly after getting home, they were hanging from the ceiling 100” screen for about $1100!!! Cables will be run through the ceiling/wall soon.

Home networking!!!

Duncan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:32:55 +0000

Russ and I were finally able to get some cables run here in the house. In the end I ended up giving him a color laser printer that I had for his help, and I provided all the materials. We ran 19 Cat5e cables, 18 of which are for data, the other one is for sound so that I can listen to music from my computer in the office in the living room. Here is a breakdown of where all the ports went: 1 in the bedroom, 6 in the blue room for servers, 3 in the living room, 2 in the dining room, 2 in the garage, and 4 in the arcade. Also in the bedroom I pulled the old phone jack and coax that were coming out of the wall and put all of them in the same plate as the network, ignore the numbers, I reused plates.

Then we have the living room, with the three network ports, and two RCA connectors for left and right audio.

And we have the two in the dining room, which are next to pre-existing cable and phone.

And the garage.

And two of the four that are in the arcade, you can prolly guess what the other two look like.

And where do all these cables go? To my patch panel and to the switches, I’m using two D-Link switches, a 24 port, and a 16 port. I have plans to get a 24 port gigabit switch soon, I have a small 5 port, but my desktop, servers, PS3 and several other things support gigabit.

I know, I know…Why? Why not, don’t ask why I did this, I like to have lans and hate to have cables everywhere, and the arcade machines need to connect to the network as well. I do have several access points as well.

Computer case mod! This time paint!

Duncan — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:05:28 +0000

Well, I decided that my case didn’t look the best inside after I put the window on because of the motherboard tray, and everything else being gray in color. So I took it all apart and painted it!

And pics!

Duncan — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:20:40 +0000

Well my brain image uploader didn’t work so here are the pics!

Case mod!

Duncan — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:44:40 +0000

Ha, what a surprise! I’ve decided to do some mod’s to my current desktop which is the quad core AMD that I have. Currently just changing out a fan, adding some lights, and a window. I just finished cutting the window out, and am about to run to the Ho Depot to get me some plexli. Pics are currently being beamed to your brain on next post, hopefully.

Ohh, I also need some graphics work done, so anyone good with graphics let me know, maybe we can trade some services.

Coffee Table VS Coke Machine

Duncan — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:53:16 +0000

Who will win? Well, the coke machine did. It ended up taking a chunk out of the coffee table when I moved it into the house and it fell over. But anyway, I will let the pics do the talking.