Stuff I write about
VInnie's substack article stack
Stuff
For the Glory of God - The art that we create.
Raspberry Pi Internet of Things Project
Rain Sensors
Getting the data and controlling the devices from the REST API
Using software devices to build on the hardware.
Scheduling and managing events
Securing your farm from hacking
Farmsteading
Distance from Disorder - Why and how we moved to Arkansas
Be Water, My friend. - Our first irrigation project at Stella Porta
The Great Pumpkin Patch Pump - Pumpkin Patch Irrigation project
Rural Internet - Solar-powered Wi-Fi, StarLink, and Cameras
The Guest House - Southern Hospitality
This is my Dirt - The Farmsteading Adventure Begins.
Home/Farm Automation
Amateur Radio
Hamming it up - Adventures in Amateur radio
Friggin in the Riggin - Adventures in Maritime and Aviation radio
Mayday… - The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS)
Search and Rescue
Rescue Me - Adventures in Search and Rescue
Woofing in the Woods - Training as a rescue medical professional
The M part of March - Tourniquet use and training
Thunderstruck - More than you wanted to know about lightning, much more!
Digital Privacy
Leaving the Apple EcoSystem - We've got to get ourselves back to the garden.
Leaving the Apple Ecosystem - part 2 - Time to Monkey around with it.
Leaving the Apple Ecosystem - part 3 - The day-to-day apps.
Leaving the Apple Ecosystem - part 4 - The Unplugged Phone
Leaving the Apple Ecosystem - part 5 - Better privacy through Proton
PiCar - Raspberry Pi Car Radio Project
Part 1 - Why would anyone sane do this?
Part 2 - The Hardware.
Part 3 - 1-wire temperature sensors
Part 4 - An Overview of the Software
Part 5 - GPS, or where the heck are we?
Part 6 - Can you hear me now? - Raspberry Pi Audio.
Part 7 - Software Defined Radio.
Part 8 - Who ate all the CPU?
Part 9 - Play that funky music ...
Various pieces of hardware I constructed for PiCar
Rings and Knobs - Rotary encoder and LED rings
Power Management Part 1 - Safe shutoff switch
Power Management Part 2 - Turning on the Radio
CAN bus and Hacking your Car Network
Part 1 - ODB vs. CAN bus,
Part 2 - Connecting Raspberry Pi to CAN
Part 3 - Reverse Engineering CAN packets
Part 4 - Writing code to talk to CAN
Part 5 - ODB and older cars
Raspberry Pi Client/Server topics
Other Raspberry Pi Topics
What I do
- Wikipedia removed me, probably because of my politics. (who cares)
I am not a fan of past accomplishments; I care more about what you are doing today.
But If I had to summarize, I would say I am passionate about creating tools that preserve people’s freedom of speech and privacy.
I was an early homebrew computer hacker in the 70s, but I started my professional work around 1982. I worked for companies such as Digital Equipment Corp, Apple Computer, and PGP Corporation, and co-founder of Silent Circle, 4th A Technologies, and ZeroDark.cloud. I was well-known in the cryptography and Cipherpunk worlds until I walked away from Silicon Valley when it turned its focus on censorship and leftist ideals.
Older Stuff
Silent Text - from Wayback Machine
Silent Text Design Notes (GitHub)