Tom's Life Bits

This is a collection of articles about how to do stuff.

• Toms Linux Notes
• VB Serial Comm
• Encore DVD notes some authoring hints dealing with Adobe Encore
• Everything you wanted to know about a CNC
• Creating Windows Setup CDs

• Sculpture_proportions
• Flamingo Puppet Etsy

• Program AVR Remoteley with ZIGBEE
• AVR32 buildroot patching
• Atmel ICSP & JTAG wiring
• Reading thermistor tables with GCC
• Little Endian explained
• Atmega VGA Control Michael Kohn
• AVR32 LCD interfacing info interfacing with Atmel AVR32
• AVR32 GPIO writing example code for Atmel AVR32

• Hardware for Blue Iris 5/3/2019

• Tom's Notes
• CSS for convention banner

• Create DVD slide show

• Wake on LAN JAVA implementation
• RJ45 ethernet wiring
• RJ45 POE (Power over ethernet)
• Protect Folders in Synology Web Shared Folder

• Verifone Tranz 330 Hacking Aug 16, 2008
• JPG Headers explained
• Inrush current limiting used in the GE Microwave Oven
• Stop Christmas Lights from Flashing

• Borax mold abatement
• DIY Roach killer
• Heloise Roach killer recipe
• DIY Glass Cleaner, the Consumer Reports window cleaning formula
• DIY Window Cleaner, the Consumer Reports window cleaning formula
• DIY Tile Cleaner
• DIY Soap Scum Remover Dawn and Vinegar
• Play DVD's on Family Room TV
• Gas Grill parts
• Hanging Toilet Paper
• Downing Place tel and computer wiring
• Amtrak Roach control chemicals
• Traviata Computer Specs and Info
• Traviata Dokuwiki CSV tables
• Honeywell Thermostat wire color code
• Schlage leversets Model numbers
• Hoover WindTunnel Bags April 2012 Hoover
• DIY Healthcare Masks May 2020

• Button Masher Script for Immich dup finder

• Embedding PDFs
• Protocol for creating and maintaining Jalbums
• Protocol for maintaining visual directory of scanned photos

• DIY Hummingbird Food Libbie's recipe (added 4/26/170
• DIY Weed Killer

Some sample code and technical reference for HTTP Posting and HTTP Get.

• HTTP Get Sample URL and parsed results

• Reading wdb files MS Works database files
• sizing booklet covers

• Mbed Magjack wiring
• Magjack specs Sparkfun version
• Mbed pinout
• Mbed RPC Library notes Using mbed classes, RPCVariables

• One wire temp conversion
• One wire RJ45 wiring standard
• Simple one wire driver circuits
• Kahlo OW probe wiring colors
• Hobby Boards Temp board July 2011
• Hobby Boards T1 address = 0x10, 0x04, 0xb2, 0x3B, 0x02, 0x08, 0x00, 0x0E
• Hobby Boards T2 address = 10, 02, D6, 3B, 02, 08, 00, B2
• Temp sensor HvacOut = 28ADC89601000057 or 28, AD, C8, 96, 01, 00, 00, 57
• Temp sensor HvacIn = 2877B69601000093 or 28, 77, B6, 96, 01, 00, 00, 93
• Temp sensor H2O = 0x28, 0x49, 0xDD, 0x96, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x0C

• Ooma jack wiring

• SMD component sizes
• Orcad Layout Notes: technology template, AP drill sizes, SM chip sizes, Orcad PCB layer names and types
• AP Circuits Layout files sample screen capture (from Nieto job)
• dSub PCB dimensions
• DC-DC PCB dimensions
• Pactec Hub enclosure dimensions
• Largo Electronic enclosures
• Tom G Orcad Library Guide
• Sparkfun Batch PCB File extensions
• Component lead diameters for PCB drill

• Embedding IPTC data into an image
• Reading and Writing EXIF data using Exiftool among others
• Reading-writing Photos Knightsbridge Image storage protocol

• Run a python program at Boot using Systemd

• Using PIP Install python modules

• Car battery charger
• LCD 4 bit interfacing
• Linksys router serial port
• Power Supply - Battery charger - Load switch
• Reading UPC Bar codes
• SMTP address GMAIL

• Arduino Post to Web Hosted SQL Db

• WIZ108SR Communications
• WIZNET to Pachube Communications uses Arduino

• The Art of Storytelling July 2012 WSJ author tweets about her Pixar experience
• Ditch these 11 Phrases
• Cornell Note Taking Method Jan 31, 2025

• eliminate XP security warnings