Working with Flora

Flora is the name given to Adafruit’s “wearable” microcontroller.  What it really means is that it has some large holes that can be used for sewing to clothing and such.  Adafruit provides a number of lessons, one of which introduces you to this...

First thoughts on OpenSCAD

SketchUp is what I have been terming the “Programmer’s Maya”.  But I just came across a modeling program that truly deserves that title – OpenSCAD. OpenSCAD is pretty much only useful for 3D prints – you would not want to use it for...

Setting up a network printer

Just purchased an HP 7612.  Even though I had the IP address of the printer and Windows looked like it installed it properly, every time I printed, I received a notice about the printer being offline. After going into the Control Panel and fidgeting with the...

Setting up RetroPie

As an avid Nintendo collector and a person with a recent interest in electronics like Arduino, it made sense to contribute to building a custom Classic NES since they were all sold out this past holiday season.   I want to note a couple written tutorials that...

Error establishing a database connection

Search for this error with regards to WordPress and you will find lots of articles talking about how the wp-config.php has bad credentials.  Funny thing is, I came across this error and credentials were not the problem.  Here’s how I fixed it. My site is on a...