Browsing tag: hardware

  • April 26, 2020

    A DIY Remote Control Arduino Recording Sign for OBS!

    A little rough around the edges, but it gets the job done!

    In the lesson I teach this semester, I have 50 minutes to take a group of around 14 fourth-graders that I haven’t seen since last semester and produce a video of them making a weather forecast. Due to the layout of the room, last year when I taught this lesson I was constantly running from the control section of our green screen studio to the recording area. So, this year I decided to make a remote controller.…

  • April 17, 2020

    Adding a PCIe SSD to a Non-Fusion Late 2014 Mac Mini — A Guide

    Recently, I found out some of my web pages didn’t look so great on Apple devices, so I picked up a late 2014 Mac Mini so I could have a device running Safari natively. Unfortunately, after upgrading it to the latest version of macOS, it was almost too sluggish to use. So started a long, misguided journey to carry out one of the few upgrades available for this particular model of the Mini — adding a PCIe SSD.

    Note that had I done a little more research before starting this adventure, I could have avoided a bunch of headaches.…