Yes you heard right, I’ve discovered a set of tools that allows for FPGA development on Mac OS. Here’s list of some things you’ll need. A Mac, obviously A Lattice FPGA (iCE40 LP/HX 1K/4K/8K) or a dev board such as icoBoard, iCEstick, etc.. If you decide to purchase an FPGA from Mouser or Digikey, I have some breakout boards for…
FPGA on a Breadboard – iCE40HXK1-VQ100
So recently I’ve been fascinated with with FPGA’s and what they have to offer. There almost seems to be an overwhelming amount of options out there and it may not always be obvious which FPGA you should choose. If you’re just starting out then a great choice is the iCE40HXK1-VQ100 which can be had from Mouser or any other distributor…
Gameboy DMG Cartridge Connector Breakout
So I’ve been working on a new project which requires that I’m able to move the Gameboy’s cartridge connector around freely without regard for where the main board might be. At first I thought I’ll just get some ribbon cable and solder it from the connector to the main board but that just gets extremely messy. So I decided to…
My Mini Table Top / Bar Top Arcade
So a few months ago my wife suggested that I build an arcade machine from scratch… I like challenges and its something I’d done before so I said sure, we can do that. Out of dumb luck, I was browsing through the Facebook marketplace a few days later and found someone giving away a non function 2005 Golden Tee arcade.…
Your IT administrator has set a policy that prevents changes to known folders. Please remove this policy and try again.
So I recently stumbled upon this particular issue when I decided to start utilizing OneDrive for Business within our Office 365 subscription to redirect known folders (Documents, Desktop, Pictures) to OneDrive. One of the first articles I read mentioned that if you previously had folder redirection setup in Group policy then you wouldn’t be able to utilize the Silently move…
SSH to Cisco ASA fails, unable to negotiate, no matching key exchange method found.
Turns out there is a very simple fix for this. On the ASA ssh key-exchange group dh-group14-sha1 Or as a quick work around you could add -oKexAlgorithms=+diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 in the client bash>ssh -oKexAlgorithms=+diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 username@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
How to Fix username is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
So there are a lot of articles with this error but none of them actually helped me solve my problem. I have a VPS with GoDaddy so I’m not sure if I have a more less unique case here but I just thought I’d detail out my resolution for someone else that might be having this issue. I’m using CentOS…
A Filament Spool Holder for 3D Printers
I know there are tons of spool holders online but I didn’t really like any of them so I decided to design my own. I’m aware that spools come in different widths and sizes so I’m going to go ahead and let you know that I mostly use Paramount 3D filament and this spool holder was designed with the dimensions of…
Setting the MySQL Root User Password on Mac OS Server
Regardless of how you found your way to this post, your end goal must be to set or reset the root user password for your MySQL installation on Mac OS. This is another post I’m adding mostly for my own reference but if it can help someone else as a result that’s awesome. First you’ll need to stop the MySQL…
How to install Apache, PHP 7.1 and MySQL on CentOS 7.3 (LAMP)
In this quick tutorial I will show you how to install an Apache web server on CentOS 7 server with PHP and MySQL support. LAMP stands for Linux Apache MySQL PHP. There are also Windows and Mac variations of this named WAMP and MAMP respectively. To start, we will have to add the EPEL repo to install the latest phpMyAdmin:…