Building my New Desktop and Gaming Rig
I’ve been planning to build a new gaming pc build for quite some time. Unfortunately so many other things just seem to get in the way. Well now that time is finally here, and I went all out on this bad boy including a GTX 1080ti STRIX and the Enthoo Evolv tempered glass case! All […]
The LattePanda Single Board Computer (Intro)
Whether you’re building an arcade or some other contraption, the goto board for most of these projects has been the Raspberry Pi series of single board computers. Since the Raspberry Pi runs an ARM Cortex processor, you would normally run Raspbian – which is a Linux based operating system. If you want to run Windows, […]
Tour of My Home Network (and More!)
So I have had a ton of requests over the years to give a tour of my home network. Honestly, I never gave the tour because I just didn’t think people would be that interested in what I had. Well I have had enough requests to get the idea that some of you really do […]
Building a 1U Server (Bad A** 1U Server Build!)
This build is not about building the biggest, baddest, and most redundant server we can build, rather this one is about building the biggest and baddest server that we cram in to a 1U case that is only 19” wide by 12” deep. Building a 1U Server didn’t come without challenges, but in the end it was […]
Installing a 19″ Network Rack (at home)
The story of installing a home network rack in our house is a great one, but first you need to know the backstory! When we built our new home a year ago (we started it in 2013) one of the things that was very important to me was that the home was designed with structured […]
Use Siri to Control Nest, MyQ, HomeSeer, etc.
A lot of people want to use Siri to control Nest, HomeSeer, or other automation systems. Apple created a product suite called HomeKit that allows just this type of interaction to happen. However, as of yet not very many app developers or manufacturers have added this functionality to their applications or hardware. Once enabled you […]