Projects

Specific pages of interest:

• A Faribault, Minnesota Weather Almanac Dataset
• Faribault Junior High School Yearbook Project
  • 1940 Faribault High School Voyageur
  • 1979-1980 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 1980-1981 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 1981-1982 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 1982-1983 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 1983-1984 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 1984-1985 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 1987-1988 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 1988-1989 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 1989-1990 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 1990-1991 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 1991-1992 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 1992-1993 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 1993-1994 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 1994-1995 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 1995-1996 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 1996-1997 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 1998-1999 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 1999-2000 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 2000-2001 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 2001-2002 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 2002-2003 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 2003-2004 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 2004-2005 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 2005-2006 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 2006-2007 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
  • 2009-2010 Faribault Junior High School Yearbook
• Minnesota Maps for GRLevel3
• Rice County Mobile Command Center
• MailTalk, The E-Mail Reader That Talks
• The MisterHouse/APRS Tracking System: Linking the World of Home Automation with Amateur Radio
• TinyTrak for APRS
• Epods APRS-CE

Previous posts:

• New mechanical SCSI hard drive replaced in an Apple Mac SE FDHDNovember 17, 2023
  I replaced an old Quantum SCSI hard disk drive in an Apple Mac SE FDHD this afternoon. A project long overdue! I needed to use the third-party Lido hard drive management and partition utility to get the Apple to recognize a non-Apple hard disk drive. Just as proprietary and “closed ecosystem” back then as they… Read more: New mechanical SCSI hard drive replaced in an Apple Mac SE FDHD
• Minnesota Radioddity GD-88 Codeplugs for DMRApril 4, 2023
  The Radioddity GD-88 is a neat, inexpensive new dual VFO analog/digital handheld transceiver. Since no codeplugs are publicly available for this transceiver that I have found, I made one based on the Anytone Codeplugs by Eric Ganske, W0EDG. Check out the instructions and codeplugs at the link below: Radioddity GD-88 Minnesota Codeplugs
• Alpine iLX-F409 Halo9 9″ Touchscreen w/ Android Auto & Apple CarPlay Install in 1988 3rd Gen CamaroMarch 12, 2022
  Here’s a finished installation of Alpine’s iLX-F409 9″ Halo9 Multimedia Touchscreen Receiver w/ Bluetooth, SiriusXM, Hands-Free Kit, Android Auto, Apple CarPlay, HDMI in/out, and rear backup camera, in a 1988 Third Generation Camaro. The iLX-F409 is among a small handful of receivers that install in a single-din slot, have a permanent (non-mechanized) touchscreen, and support… Read more: Alpine iLX-F409 Halo9 9″ Touchscreen w/ Android Auto & Apple CarPlay Install in 1988 3rd Gen Camaro
• A 5 1/4″ floppy drive connected with USB?February 24, 2022
  Yup…that’s a 5 1/4″ Floppy Disk Drive, connected via USB to my computer. This board called a Greaseweazle reads the raw flux transitions from a floppy disk and recreates them as disk drive image files for modern computers. I just found disks full of music, sound files, and BASIC source code that I haven’t heard… Read more: A 5 1/4″ floppy drive connected with USB?
• New Bruce Smith Field ScoreboardAugust 16, 2021
  This is going to be so cool! I’ll have a training session tomorrow on this, and then I’ll be running this system live for the first football game of the year. Thanks to the Faribault Booster Club and all its sponsors.
• Display Systems 19S-8 Vintage Eggcrate Display Technical OverviewJanuary 15, 2021
  For those of you that REALLY want to know the inner details behind my Vintage Light Display project, I made a technical overview video. You might be sorry you asked.
• Display Systems 19S-8 Vintage Eggcrate Display ClockJanuary 3, 2021
  There was a reason that CBS and other television networks used these type of displays on game shows when they had bright studio lights to contend with. The light is piercing from these! Tonight, I got 22 wires soldered on 22 pins to mate with a Molex connector on the back of each display. Both… Read more: Display Systems 19S-8 Vintage Eggcrate Display Clock
• Display Systems 19S-8 Vintage Eggcrate DisplayJanuary 2, 2021
  Logic and software I wrote is all good! The correct plug didn’t come for the displays so I’ll have to hook the rest up later, but this is super cool!
• A relic and mainstay of all classic 80s gameshows…December 30, 2020
  Initial Test of a Display Systems 19S-8 Vintage Eggcrate Display (Light Bulb Matrix), common to television game shows of the 1970s-1990s. This is one of two Display Systems 19S-8 eggcrate displays that I purchased from Surplus Sales of Nebraska. I plan to integrate both into a working count up/count down timer powered by a ESP8266… Read more: A relic and mainstay of all classic 80s gameshows…
• No, it’s not 1987, it’s 2019… (An Apple IIgs prints a “Print Shop” sign in 2019)May 29, 2019
  The sights and sounds of antique technology. I bought a new ribbon off of Amazon to see if that’s the only thing that was needed to bring this old ImageWriter II to life. This is a fully operational Apple IIgs with a 5 1/4″ and 3 1/2″ floppy disk drive, color monitor, and ImageWriter II… Read more: No, it’s not 1987, it’s 2019… (An Apple IIgs prints a “Print Shop” sign in 2019)
• Homemade Solar TrackerAugust 21, 2016
  It was a bright, sunny day, so why not build a homemade solar tracker? Solar trackers help solar panels always point at the sun as the sun moves from east to west across the sky. They slightly improve efficiency of panels connected to them. We took an old “C-band” satellite rotator and controller, and soldered… Read more: Homemade Solar Tracker
• 1992 SouthLAN/MNWADA Joint Packet Radio Node Install at FaribaultFebruary 21, 2016
  During much of 1991, the SouthLAN and MNWADA Packet Radio Clubs in Southern Minnesota planned and designed 3 high-speed packet radio nodes to be installed at Apple Valley, Faribault, and Dodge Center. The Faribault site, MNFBL:N0QVC-1, would have a 1200 baud user frequency on 145.01 MHz, a 9600 baud backbone towards Dodge Center on 430.95… Read more: 1992 SouthLAN/MNWADA Joint Packet Radio Node Install at Faribault
• A Good Knight to Use the 3D PrinterOctober 17, 2015
  A spiral-inspired knight, today’s 3D printing project with my #M3D. Turned out great!
• Using ProComm Plus in DosBox to make a 9600 baud BBS connection through Google voiceJune 13, 2015
• Copying Number Munchers from PC Compatible through null MODEM cable to Apple //gsMarch 31, 2013
  Having been an Apple ][ enthusiast for 30 years, I often wondered if there was an easy way to download Apple disk images off the Internet and somehow transfer them over to an Apple to use. It so happens a program called ADTPro is available to accomplish this task with an easy-to-build null MODEM cable.