Gadget Man's Blog

Free Heating from your Solar Panels? Yes Please! This neat little hack takes (near) real-time statistics data from your Solax Inverte...

Just had to post this one, after a narrow escape: LESSON: ALWAYS BACK UP YOUR DATA BEFORE UPDATING BIOS FIRMWARE! While diagnosing some...

Microsoft designed windows AD Domains to put security boundaries around organisations, and enable structured administration of them. There a...

If you have a home lab system, and dont run a 'real' AD domain, Hyper-V's remote admin tools can be un-cooperative. Until I d...

Just in case you though I'd gone away, here's a little hack to enable you to use Twitter to send commands to your BBSB (Bye Bye Sta...

Just a quick update on the CurrentCost interfacing to the NSLU2 . I posted earlier, thanks to manutitou over at pachube.com, he's figure...

Strap yourselves down, it's my biggest load of waffle ever.... There's been quite a bit of activity over on the HomeEasy pages on Ar...

After several late nights on this one, I've finally cracked it. Thanks to Barnaby and Peter's postings on Arduino.cc I've manag...

Thanks to some sample code found here, I've churned out a handly little HomeEasy to ByeByeStandby RF Repeater. This little project will...

Several people have blogged about their solution to publishing their electricity usage online. Here's our solution: Using a CurrentCost ...

Nasty one this - Hyper-V on Windows 2008 R2 just wouldnt give a stable network connection for remote desktop to Guests, and the host sometim...

Ok, So a better BBSB Repeater project would be able to do everything the previous post refers to, AND be able to recieve BBSB codes and send...