Thirty years ago, I started sharing what I was learning outside of work when blogs were just starting. (I wrote my first blog in Perl before php and WordPress existed.) My initial goal was to capture what I was learning and hopefully be a bit of help to others.
Now, with close to 250 posts and after a career in government and several companies in industry, I’m focused on sharing the cool stuff I learn or build. From work with DARPA, the National Academies, the Air Force Reserves and my job in the defense industry, I have an incredible front-row seat to observe the intersection of tech and the most challenging application areas. I use that insight to experiment and build things. I use this site a chance to share and introduce others to coolest stuff I’m finding. It’s been a virtuous cycle of insight as folks reach out and return the favor. If we are working on something similar, please reach out through post comments or email me at [email protected].
Texas introduced us to cowboy hats and electric gates, in our case a a Nice Apollo 1500LA. It’s a long-running linear actuator swing gate: simple enough to be something I can repair, but just complicated enough to be difficult. The whole gate is really two different parts: a 636 control board and a 816 actuator. […] read more