New print bed

We received our new print bed from eBay/China. Not a Lokbuild but at least its cheaper. First thing I noticed is that this sheet is thicker than a Lokbuild, 0.6mm thick instead of 0.5. When I followed the steps on calibrating I clicked 6 8 times to ensure proper spacing instead of the original 4.

Before applying pad

Robox Instructions:

  1. Launch AutoMaker software and navigate to Calibration button

  2. Follow instructions until asked to insert paper between nozzles and build plate

  3. Follow instructions and raise nozzles to point at which paper moves freely between nozzles and build plate

  4. Set height 4 6 8 clicks higher than this point (i.e. 0.4 mm)

  5. Proceed as normal

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Automated water system?

A friend at work asked if I could help solve his issues with his water intake from the well. At first I was like um why? Living in the city I did not know anything about how country side water systems worked. Water pumped from a well has a chance that it may contain too much sulfur making the water smell. He wanted to pull rain water into a tank and use it as primary with the well water as a failsafe.

I am thinking about using a basic ESP8266 along with a couple of water pressure sensors and relays triggering the water pumps he already has. The code should be very simple to write and I already have most of the hardware here minus the sensor.

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Phillips hue + smartthings

I’m not really sure why it started working all of a sudden. I’m glad I did not buy a Hue hub. I had a test bulb plugged in as a normal bulb when it randomly showed up to my SmartThings hub. This happened after adding Sengled classic bulbs to my system and a SmartThings hub update. I think maybe it had to do with Zigbee adding cross compatibility between ZLL and ZHA protocols. [Read More]

Smart Things 433mhz

Going to be creating a receiver to translate 433mhz sensors to smart things, Most likely going to be using a esp8266 to make it easier to configure. I still have to figure out how to identify the smart things hub withouth manually entering in its ip, maybe upnp? I also bought a CC2530 chip for zigbee testing, Not sure what im going to do with that yet. Edit: I think I may have made a mistake buying zigbee chips. [Read More]

Colocrossing Client and Admin control panel

A highly advanced control panel that manages multiple datacenters across the country. This control panel has management features such as users, switches, routers, virtual machines, DDOS mitigation, port monitoring, billing, support tickets, sales and many more things. The panel grew more and more everyday become fully automated in every aspect of a datacenter technicians work.

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ATTO.com Domain Acquisition

After hearing that they have been trying to contact a company for the purchase of atto.com for 16 years, I figured I could give it a shot. I helped ATTO Technology locate the correct point of contact in a +10000 employee company to initiate negotiations of the acquisition for the 4 letter domain name. We acquired the Domain name by the end of July. You can checkout the other contributors for refferences. [Read More]

ATTO Technology SEO Redesign

I was hired for this company to perform SEO, shortly after google had scheduled the release of a new search algorithm that would reduce views on pages that were not mobile complaint. ATTO got the effect of this with a 50% drop in traffic in a matter of days. A website with over a million views a month it needed to be overhauled. I was tasked with a complete redesign on the website and its 800+ pages. I monitored and improved SEO on the pages over time as well as slowly gained back that 50% loss in traffic. You can checkout the other contributors for refferences.

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