Power on

Geekery Datacentre Project Completed

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:55:27 +0000

When it was but a closet

The Initial Setup

And Finally…

Shortly after moving in to my house, I opted to use a room for my Geekery (formerly known as “Nerdery”).. I dedicated circuit for power installed to make this closet remotely suitable to set up my hacky server “rack” (AKA Ikea Shelf) in.

Update (Apr 26)

This hack has been posted on Hackaday, Howtogeek and geeknmod (I suppose some others too). Coolness.

Liquid-Fluoride Thorium Reactor

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:40:36 +0000

I went to a Protospace talk recently where I listened to a wonderful 4 hour talk about Thorium based reactors. Suffice to say it was time wonderfully well spent. I’m so energized and psyched. I’ve really liked Nuclear power in the past, but that’s given way to this even better alternative. Seems a great deal safer and just all round “better” in every dimension.

Here’s an early video from the talk. A buddy is working on a refined version combining multiple angles (some of which I filmed).

Throwing Down an LED where the Potential is great

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:15:14 +0000

I saw this post on Instructables where someone asked how they could add an LED on to a high-voltage source. And for reasons I can’t explain, I just felt compelled to take a crack at it…

On the surface it’s a pretty boring/simple question. But on the other, as much as I’ve answered this question for myself several times, I thought I’d provide my approach for the world to judge. Supposedly I’ve learned how to do this (and a lot more) in school, but it seems to me like the basics like this are worthy of most of the attention.

Webserver replaced, again..

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:14:26 +0000

Howdy, so I’ve returned to hosting my site on a professional connection rather than over my lameo home setup. I’ve grown tired of n00bful downtime due to power outages, ISP outages, people tripping over cables or gnomes screwin around.

As such, dawning.ca is now hosted on a server I’ve got running down in Texas with the valuable help of Linode. That’s all for now folks.

Update

I ran in to some interesting configuration problems with this new server that was causing it to frequently run out of memory. I think I’ve resolved those matters with some real help of this article.

Arduino Independence

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:08:43 +0000

Getting the Arduino Processor to function on a breadboard

The next step in my HypnoOrb project is to figure out how to get the Arduino microprocessor (AKA ATMega168) that makes the whole thing work function with as little hardware as possible. Thanks to this awesome site, I found, I now know what I wasn’t doing right before finding that document. I hope making a reference to that helpful tutorial here will help others find it faster than I did. Have fun!