A lot of us use Anderson PowerPole connectors for DC power distribution. There’s a nearly universal standard to use red and black housings for 12 volt-ish (e.g., 13.8) lines, with the housings arranged per the “Orange County RACES Standard” like so:
Of course, to make
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I’m posting this mainly because Google didn’t turn up any help when I queried about using the USR-IOT serial port to ethernet converters (also known as terminal servers) with Linux. They make several low-cost devices that are really handy if you need to talk to serial devices that are far
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I’ve intermittently had a blog running at febo.com for years now. I used it mainly as a logbook of experiments, and it wasn’t intended to be entertaining for visitors. I recently discovered that the blogging engine I used was hopelessly obsolete, so I’ve moved into the 21st century and installed
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