macOS Delete All Local Snapshots
Single line at shell prompt … In a bash/zsh script …
Author: gruvin
Born suspiciously male on a small blue planet during its one thousand nine hundred and seventy first orbit chasing an unremarkable star in a galaxy tucked away at the edge of the universe where nothing of much interest happens and even less is remembered.
Bypassing Low Voltage Warning in OctoPrint
Say what now?! Octoprint has a built-in module “Pi Support” that gives warnings if something’s up with your ‘Pis power supply or if it’s been “throttled” any time since system boot-up. Very clever … but what happens if your sweet …
Intel Quartus 16.1: Fix for, “Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-close.c”
If you stumbled on this via Google, I hope you found it useful in your specific use case. While using intelFPGA (Quartus) Lite v16.1 on my Ubuntu Linux 16.x system, I was seeing this shared library-related error … The problem turned …
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The Mandela Effect
Regarding this Stuff NZ article; NZ and the ‘Mandela Effect’: Meet the folks who remember New Zealand being in a different place (October 12, 2016) I’ve known about these Mandela Effect people (online) for a few months now. Oh dear. NLP …
The Gruvinator 3D (Printer)
As my latest experiment with 3D printing — and frankly the only one to date worthy of a blog post — I purchased the cheapest Chinese clone, Prusa i3-based printer I could find, took the parts I liked, ditched the …
BluzDK — How to gain stability and save battery power!
This is intended for the average hacker using the BluzDK BlueTooth Low Energy module … who may not have the benefit of a Computer Science degree under their belts … and is written by one of similar ilk. “Now, I’m …
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nScope | a lab for every laptop
Possibly my Favourite Kickstarter from 2015 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nscope/nscope-a-lab-for-every-laptop Backed!
Apple OS X Prevent or Stop Three Dots (…) Being Converted to a Single Unicharacter
By default, in Apple OS X, when you type “…” (dot, dot , dot) and press [space], the three dots get converted to a single unicode character, ‘…’, which can cause problems in some scenarios. There are several mechanisms involved …
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USB Traffic Meter Thingy (gMeter) Update
I’ve now completed two versions of the envisaged USB visual meter and alarm sounder device, both based on the ATmega88P MCU and as envisaged in my previous post. A photo of the smaller version is shown, right. I have published …
KiCAD Freakduino
For a long time, I’ve wanted to get into 2.4GHz digital RF communications, using microcontrollers. I recently came across the Freaklabs “Freakduino” v2.1a and bought a couple straight away. The Freakduino – or chibiArduino (link to authentic Freakduino site) – …