Pi-hole on Google Wifi

One of the first projects I wanted to try with my new Raspberry Pi was running Pi-hole. Pi-hole is a software tool that blocks Intern...

In electronics, May 21, 2020
Headless Raspberry Pi Zero W Setup
RV-8 Flight Performance Analysis
3D Statics Problem

3D Statics Problem

In Engineering, Dec 08, 2015

Arduino Pulse-Width Modulation

The digital pins on the Arduino board can be set (with code) to output either HIGH (5V) or LOW (0V) — essentially ON or OFF. This is ...

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Pi-hole on Google Wifi

One of the first projects I wanted to try with my new Raspberry Pi was running Pi-hole. Pi-hole is a software tool that blocks Internet ads before they ever download – not just on a s...

In electronics, May 21, 2020
Pi-hole on Google Wifi

Headless Raspberry Pi Zero W Setup

The Raspberry Pi Zero W is the smallest standalone RPi board, and includes built-in WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. It has the same 40-pin GPIO pinout as the full-featured Raspberry ...

In electronics, May 20, 2020
Headless Raspberry Pi Zero W Setup

RV-8 Flight Performance Analysis

I had to write a short paper for my propulsion class, so I put together a quick and dirty performance analysis of a garden-variety RV-8. I used the open source Jupyter Notebook and th...

In engineering, Jan 11, 2017
RV-8 Flight Performance Analysis

3D Statics Problem

The following three-dimensional statics problem is taken from the book Engineering Mechanics: Statics, 8th edition, by J. L. Meriam, et al. The solution algorithm was created using th...

In Engineering, Dec 08, 2015
3D Statics Problem

Finite Difference Method

This document uses the open source Jupyter Notebook and the Python programming language to demonstrate a finite difference numerical method for solving a differential equation.

In Engineering, Nov 26, 2015
Finite Difference Method

Arduino-Processing Serial Communication

Over the last few weeks I’ve been messing around quite a bit with the Processing programming language. I was drawn to it initially because it is a close cousin to the Arduino language...

In electronics, Apr 06, 2011

The Future of Earth-to-Orbit Propulsion

Author’s NoteThis is probably my favorite article on rocketry and engineering. I initially found this on Rocketry Online way back in 2001 or 2002, and have re-read it many times since...

In rocketry, May 25, 2009
The Future of Earth-to-Orbit Propulsion

Beginning SSH on Ubuntu

Let’s say you have a private LAN running in your secret underground lab. Maybe you’ve got a Linux box hardwired to a WiFi router, and maybe a Mac or Linux laptop floating around somew...

In linux, May 29, 2008
Beginning SSH on Ubuntu

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