An old-school toggle-switch control panel for Home Automation. I’ve fast grown tired of tablet interfaces and flat glass screens you have to type on. This is my retaliation, a very tactile control panel for home automation. The control panel interfaces with my home automation system to control lights and devices around my house. The best part is I can “feel” the switches in the dark to turn on the lights!

Last year at Hamvention 2022 I purchased one of QRP Labs’ QDX Digital Transceiver kits. This week I finally got around to building it! I’ve found it performs rather well on 20m with FT8. For posterity, I’ve captured a few build photos and some notes on my build here.

A set of “nodes” for the flow based programming tool Node-RED that connect to, control, and monitor WSJT-X software over the network. With these nodes you can decode messages sent from WSJT-X and inject the data into a flow or using data in your flow encode and send commands to WSJT-X.

As part of the QSO Today Ham Expo this spring where we are building a 40m transceiver we are adding a little extra “Internet” to the project. A log and map of builders and contacts! We are building the Sea Sprite+ from QRPme. Hope to see you there!

Rex Harper (w1rex) and I hosted two kit building sessions at the October 2022 QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo. Rex did most of the talking and showing, I was more the camera operator, chat-upkeep, and support. It was a blast. Both sessions were recorded and they are available on YouTube and Vimeo.

Rex Harper (w1rex) and I hosted two kit building sessions at the March 2022 QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo. Rex did most of the talking and showing, I was more the camera operator, chat-upkeep, and support. It was a blast. Both sessions were recorded and they are available on YouTube and Vimeo.

A listing of board games I own or have played in a nicely laid out, sortable and searchable table. The play data is extracted from boardgamegeek.com (XMLAPI2) on the fly and supplemented with local (XML) data for games that have not been published or are not listed there. Built using Bootstrap v5, JavaScript, minimal jQuery, like data tables (now cloudtables).