{"id":2928,"date":"2017-04-28T08:57:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T13:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2017-04-28T08:57:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T13:57:44","slug":"gee-whiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/04\/28\/gee-whiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Gee Whiz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time flies and I just realized I had not written in any blogs for quite a while. \u00a0I have been quite active since my last tax comments.<\/p>\n

A friend and real estate agent wanted an instrument that was much smaller than the one I made for him a few years ago: \u00a0It is a device that displays whatever pictures or video’s that are in t\"\"<\/a>wo folders up on a TV via HDMI. \u00a0The Raspberry Pi 3 project is pretty much done and I am watching the video and several pictures rotate merrily along for the last couple of days. It went blank when it should last night and came on this morning. Yea. \u00a0I was a bit worried because the Raspberry Pi does not have a real time clock and it relies on the nptd daemon to go out on the internet and retrieve the time. \u00a0So far that is working but if the internet connection goes off so will the time. \u00a0I suppose with a little more effort I could add a RTC but since this is essentially Pro Bono I guess I will not.<\/p>\n

On second thought, I wonder if I could sell some of these? \u00a0Then it might be worth it to spend more time making it more bullet proof. \u00a0Of course it is an order of magnitude smaller than the ultra small form factor computer I used before. \u00a0Should last forever but if it does fail someone even slightly informed of tools of the trade could fix it. \u00a0So that was my big project of the week. \u00a0Now, on to the next one.<\/p>\n

Last night was the Gideons Pastor Appreciation Banquet. \u00a0The whole deal went smoothly and it was the best one I have attended. \u00a0This year we had a buffet table instead of the usual served meal and it went much faster and was more predictable. \u00a0After that were a few songs and 4 short quick speeches lasting about a half hour. \u00a0There was a shameless plug for the Gideon Card program. \u00a0I use this often but basically you go online, select a card, fill in the recipient name and the address where you want the card to go. \u00a0Then you select the number of bibles you want the Gideon’s to hand out in your name. \u00a0The final phase is the payment for the bibles at $5 each. \u00a0This can be done via normal credit.debit cards and I think they have added Paypal this year.<\/p>\n

I listened to the Little Red Barn Net this morning on 3820 SSB LSB and made a few comments. \u00a0I have been trying to get in all week but the Ionosphere has not been cooperating. \u00a0Anyway, I got in today and spoke long enough for the whole week in one session. The LRBN is in honor of Bob Sievers who worked at radio station WOWO 1190AM. \u00a0Almost anyone in the USA could get WOWO at some point in the day or night. \u00a0The power output was a whopping 50,000 watts. \u00a0Anyway, that is enough for tody and I have lots to do. \u00a0Moore later, Cheers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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