3D Printing Guide for Noobs
A 3D Printing Guide First Impressions While I tend to try to get into tech early and 3D printing has been very exciting to follow there was one sticky bit that I could never get past. The speed. 3D printers have trad…
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Fixing Cyberpower UPS with NUT on PFSense
Ran into a bit of a problem getting my Cyberpower UPS ST900U working on PFSense. It required a bit of banging my head against the search wall before I found a solution so hopefully this will help someone else. A quick …
Orange Pi 5 Plus Home Lab Workhorse
As one might assume of a tech nerd in 2024 I run a home network and home lab in order to keep current on modern technology. To stay relevant in tech you need a playground where you can test and fail and learn in a way th…
Custom Playstation DualShock 4 Thumb Sticks
I stumbled across this video the other day and thought this was a neat idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-LPF5nNBB8 In the face of the first gen plastic peeling and tearing issues finding an alternative stick seem…
I Sur-Vive-ed VR
Let me cut to the chase. VR is real and it’s amazing. If you’re one of those people who can’t see it, or who despite the fixes in place still get sick from it, I’m so sorry but you’re missing out. I honestly hope if you’…
Access the New Nintendo 3DS's SD Card Without Removing It
I don’t give much credit to Nintendo for a lot of things outside of making entertaining games. Frankly they’re terrible about keeping up with the modern state of gaming, by in large, and they’re especially bad at dealing…
Week 1 With The Netgear Nighthawk R7000
Last week my router was fried by my lovely cable company who can't be bothered to ground their cables. The power surge came in not on the power line but on the network line. This also took down my PCs NIC as well. The NI…
How To Flash DD-WRT to the Netgear Nighthawk R7000
My blog has moved and an updated version of this post is located here http://brockhatfield.com/flash-ddwrt-netgear-nighthawk-r7000/ Honestly the process of flashing the Netgear Nighthawk R7000…
A Week With The LG G Pad 8.3 Google Play Edition
First things first I had to take the beast out of the box. So here's that. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8XtFCcEAQc&w=560&h=315] Most people would probably lead off talking about the size and shape o…
HP Chromebook 14 The Way A Chromebook Should Be
Chromebooks are neat devices. I don't call them laptops because they really aren't. They can't do a lot of the things you expect of a real laptop like playing the largest selection of video games out there or serious vid…