G2's Blog
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This is a blog about computers, old tech, Linux, games, and shows. Look forward to new content!
All of the content on this page was made entirely by me unless stated otherwise. For example, the showcase image is my own art, and the images in blog posts and code are my own. I take pride in having no AI-generated content on my website.
Posts
A Rocket Telemetry System
In preparation for competing in Battle of the Rockets 2024 with my university rocket club, I was tasked with creating a telemetry system to meet the requirements for the Deployable Sensor Payload event. In this eve...
Embedded Rust is cool!
I've started to work on modifying an old CCTV camera pan-tilt mount to use as a satellite tracking device for receiving radio signals (and maybe for a telescope?), and during this process I have needed to write som...
Bad Apple on a MiniDisc Player
So... I got Bad Apple!! to play on a MiniDisc player. The process was interesting, so I'll write about what I did, but before that, check it out!! Now that you've seen it, the basic premise behind how it works is...
Satellite Imagery Update
I spent some more time receiving images from various weather satellites, not limited to the NOAA ones but also including the Meteor satellites from Russia. I made some more attempt...
Software Defined Fun
Over Christmas, I received an RTL-SDR USB dongle which is totally awesome! It's a little USB dongle radio that can receive on a very wide range of frequencies, all the way from dow...
A Really Retro TV (and a Cyberdeck?)
When I saw the TV on Ebay, I knew I had to have it. When browsing Ebay for an unrelated reason, I found a listing for a TV, claiming to be from JCPenney in 1978. I did some more...
Adventures in Photography, c. 1998 - 2001
I recently received an old Sony Mavica digital camera for my birthday... The camera is the MVC-FD75, a digital camera from 2001 that writes to 3.5" floppy disks. I had only he...
Space Images
I used my cellphone for most of the pictures, a Galaxy S10. For the shot of Jupiter I used a DSLR, a Pentax K-3. Most of the images only had light post-processing. I had trouble ge...