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April 6, 2024/ Photography, Racing, Sebring

Insta360 Videos, Panoramas and Shots from Sebring, 2024

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I picked up an Insta360 x3 camera – a cool little tool that shoots video of everything around it, as well as stills, bullet time videos, panoramas and more. I have plans to fly this little camera in a rocket, but before I did that, I wanted to get acquainted with it, so I brought […]

HD Homerun Dual ATSC Network Tuner
January 5, 2024/ Computing, Electronics

HD Homerun Dual ATSC Tuner: It’s the power supply.

David Cain / fix, mythtv, troubleshooting / 0 Comments

I’m gonna try and save you some time with the HD Homerun Dual ATSC Tuner: It’s the power supply. I have a “venerable” HD Homerun Dual ATSC Network tv tuner. They’re reputed to be tanks. My MythTV system could no longer access the tuners, first croaking on recordings, then eventually refusing to record at all. […]

Dirty/Clean MacBook Pro Fan
May 21, 2022/ Computing, Electronics, Making and Building

Solved: 2019 Intel i7 MacBook Pro 16 throttling, overheating

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My 2019 Intel i7 MacBook Pro was overheating and throttling on simple tasks. Monitoring a webcam, running the Music (nee iTunes) visualizer made the machine unusable. Here’s how I fixed it. Processor temp wasn’t much above 60°C, but the fans were jacked, processors were all going nuts. Clearly CPU throttling was stealing cycles. I found […]

Photo: spray booth in workshop
December 29, 2018/ Making and Building, Rocketry

Making a Paint Booth with PVC Pipe and Drop Cloth

David Cain / finishing, painting, rockets, tools, workshop / 0 Comments

When winter comes, it’s hard to get a good day to apply paint to rockets and other crafts. So I move my painting inside with a cheap paint booth. First thing I must stress: Be Safe. You have to ventilate your painting area actively, and ensure you’re not painting near ignition sources like furnace pilot […]

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