Category Archives: School

Ebay DB25 Arduino Nano grbl Adapters

Posted on 2017-05-09 by pappp

A second consecutive CNC post, because I haven’t had time to write up long-form posts for months, and something requiring documentation came up today. While I’m still quite happy with LinuxCNC (especially since I discovered NativeCAM), my adviser bought himself … Continue reading →

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Install Viavdo 2016.2 on ArchLinux (x86_64)

Posted on 2016-09-08 by pappp

As of the date of this post, Xilinx Vivado 2016.2 works fine on Arch with minimal coaxing. Said coaxing is documented here in case it will be useful for others. 1. Install ncurses5-compat-libs from AUR, or the installer will hang … Continue reading →

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Makergear M2 Upgrades

Posted on 2016-07-26 by pappp

The lab Makergear M2’s heated bed power supply died a few weeks ago, so we decided it was time for a serious upgrade, and set out to equip it with basically the best parts currently on the market, as we’re … Continue reading →

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Breaking In to your Own Devices

Posted on 2015-11-04 by pappp

I gave an informal talk for the IEEE student branch about breaking in to your own devices this evening. I did the low-postable-content notes with live examples and links thing, but at least one person wanted to watch the video … Continue reading →

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University Email Simulator

Posted on 2015-10-06 by pappp

A generic version of the email you will receive on a daily basis from the University of BS (Which is probably the school you deal with), as you will read it after the first few repetitions. Graduates can relive their … Continue reading →

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Rescuing Ancient FreeBSD Discs with Linux

Posted on 2015-01-27 by pappp

The ancient FreeBSD/i386 box that was running cgi.aggregate.org finally keeled over. I just blew my afternoon/evening scraping the data off of it because while the most critical stuff was backed up, not everything was. Some keyword and error string filled … Continue reading →

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3D Printing KC Talk

Posted on 2015-01-22 by pappp

I gave a quick primer on 3D printing as a Keeping Current (CS departmental) seminar yesterday. It’s not a great standalone deck but posted (in reduced quality, gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=/path/to/output.pdf /path/to/input.pdf is good magic). It … Continue reading →

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Command Line Bullshittery?

Posted on 2014-10-11 by pappp

I started responding to Philip Guo’s Helping my students overcome command-line bullshittery that passed through my news feeds today, and my thought quickly outgrew the appropriate size for social media, so it’s going up here. I understand and often share … Continue reading →

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Course Impressions Fall 2014

Posted on 2014-09-09 by pappp

Most of my online presence has been in other venues recently, but I’ll at least make sure my semester before/after chain here remains unbroken. Taking CS571: Computer Networks I’m pleased with the general design of the course. There is nice … Continue reading →

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Lab Fridge Repair: Thinking with 3D Printing

Posted on 2014-06-23 by pappp

I’m posting this because it’s such a nice example for the standard “What are 3D printers really good for?” question. When I got to the lab today, I was told the can chute in our mini-fridge was broken. Inspection showed … Continue reading →

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