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Chasing AI: breaking into AI coding with Claude Code

Posted on October 22, 2025 by Trick

I’ve always had this feeling that coding might be, broadly speaking, the most useful thing we can get an LLM to do.  They’re great at generating written and visual content and in particular to getting you from a blank canvas to … Continue reading →

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Chasing AI: running ollama on my old AMD RX470 GPU

Posted on September 24, 2025 by Trick

What I learned by running LLMs on hardware here at home. Continue reading →

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HAB flight 6 – SSH:C strikes again

Posted on May 8, 2025 by Trick

As with the last launch I wrote about, this is another collaboration with South Side Hackerspace: Chicago (SSH:C) studying the effects of solar maximum as part of the NEBP.  Yes, they know the eclipse was last year ;) The flight took place on … Continue reading →

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HAB flight 5 – collaboration with SSH:C

Posted on April 10, 2025 by Trick

A group of balloon enthusiasts at South Side Hackerspace: Chicago (SSH:C) are doing a series of launches studying the effects of solar maximum. These launches are a continuation of the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project, a NASA funded program which is … Continue reading →

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Florida Space Coast visit and launch viewing guide

Posted on November 25, 2024 by Trick

We visited the Florida Space Coast last in November 2024 and had a fantastic experience.  The dates for the trip were drawn up a couple of months in advance of any firm rocket launch expectations, but with the cadence of Falcon … Continue reading →

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HAB flight 4 – “I’m back in the USA…”

Posted on September 23, 2024 by Trick

It’s been five years since my last HAB flight. The payloads have been moved across the world in a shipping container,  grown dust, moved from box to box, and even parts pillaged for other projects.  “hatTrick” and “EAGLE” haven’t broadcast in … Continue reading →

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Solderless programming a DFM17 radiosonde

Posted on September 26, 2023 by Trick

Earlier this year I caught my first three DFM17 radiosondes and shortly thereafter discovered gx1400’s dfm_hamradio project (which I’ve been working on) and the Recessim wiki page covering basics for how to hack the device. I “dead bug” soldered wires … Continue reading →

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Retrieved my first two radiosondes

Posted on March 4, 2023 by Trick

I have been nerding on weather balloons for years now, and the amazing radiosonde_auto_rx project blew my mind when I first ran across it. Back then it was in it’s infancy with a handful of listeners, many of which were … Continue reading →

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Introduction to ESPHome

Posted on December 31, 2021 by Trick

I’ve long been a tinkerer of home automation: Since moving to the US in 2019 and buying my first home, my old X10 modules came out of storage. I quickly realized that a whole world of development has happened in … Continue reading →

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IO91 -> EN51…NW6 1UE -> 60137…51N -> 41N…2001:8b0:da4::/48 -> 2601:249:902:50a1::/64 (completing the circuit)

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Trick

“There and Back Again, a hobbit’s tale by Bilbo Baggins and The Lord of the Rings by Frodo Baggins. You finally finished it.” – Sam “Not quite. There’s room for a little more.” – Frodo Completing the circuit We just moved back … Continue reading →

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