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What is a Door? Doors are one of the most vital components of someones security. These provide the first line of defense in our residential home and similar buildings, and provide a last line of defense in an apartment, hotel, and bedroom. Doors act as a symbol in our minds, of boundaries from the inner and the outer and may be the most potent ...

(image source: mitpress.mit.edu) Making the Inanimate Move The first major decision to be made on our security robot is of course going to be how we make it capable of moving. There will be plenty of time to consider how we are going to make it actually move, motors, wheel placement, plenty of fun. For now however, it is time to discuss how we...

There Be Dragons I rarely like advertisements except for the very rare exception, mostly because it is clear that advertising is just cleverly straddling a line between creativity and deception. I came to terms with that a long time ago, and mainly my gripes fall on purely aesthetic levels at this point, as I don’t like wine but still feel a gr...

Magnets, Burglaries, Bluetooth, Faraday, Credit and debit cards always held a magical allure to them for the longest time for me. There seemed like a great deal of power, and responsibility in these little pieces of plastic that could in a moments notice let you buy a snack, a tool, or as much as a vehicle. In my adolescence cards with chips ca...

Vacuums? This post is going to be a post as it relates to the needs and requirements of the eventual incognito motion detector attached to or built into a robotic vacuum. There is not much in the way of planned actions on this for now, but here is a general layout of the plan. Planning First I need to plan this out, this post is going to be p...

This Post. This post is a personal post, I will do a few of these from time to time. Not really about anything technical but more about personal thoughts about whatever the topic is. This time it is about my feelings about being in privacy centric circles and obverving the descent of many of them into QAnon, and other conspiracy theories (While...

Phase 1 Complete This will be a shorter post, however I felt it might be nice to reflect on my experience of getting my server available to the internet to allow for accessing my files anywhere, and also for collaborative work to have a local area to be stored and worked on with the team. It had some nerve wracking components and I have learned...

Incomparable To The Past It is hard to put into words how nice it is for something to work, and for it to work in an almost effortless way in comparison to the past attempts. Had you sat me down 2 years ago and said, “Simple just take this laptop, install a new operating system, and configure it to act as a ftp and web server.”. You might as we...