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Flight Timer & Alarms for FSi6- Awesome New Firmware!

May 5, 2017 Comments 0 Comment

Recently I updated my FlySky FSi6 transmitter with yet another new firmware. This is the one I’ve been waiting for! I now have fully functional flight timer with alarms and 3 more fully configurable alarms as well as full 10 channels. This is all on an under $50 transmitter. Simply amazing. WARNING! There is always a chance you can brick your radio. Only proceed if you can accept the risks. Important: If you use this firmware you need to bind…

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Raspberry Pi Amazon Echo / Alexa Project

December 23, 2016 Comments 0 Comment

If you would like to build the smart kitchen terminal shown in my videos start by setting up your Raspberry Pi set up as shown in the video and detailed instructions here. You can also start with any basic Raspberry Pi running Raspbian. Now we can set you Pi up to be a fully functional Amazon Alexa powered device. If you didn’t already watch the Alexa setup video you can see it HERE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBltF1nc7-M As described in the video…

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Raspberry Pi Home Automation Terminal

December 1, 2016 Comments 0 Comment

Here’s the full instructions to build your smart kitchen display with a Raspberry Pi to display live video, weather reports, news, time and more. To get started you can see the full video overview here: Go ahead and assemble your Raspberry Pi as shown in the video. The webcam/microphone isn’t needed right now but I included it because next video we will be adding full control and voice activation via the Amazon Alexa service. You can use the NOOBs…

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Raspberry Pi Projects For The Holiday Season

November 25, 2016 Comments 0 Comment

With the holiday season upon us we all might get a bit more time to spend around home. What better time to make some neat new Raspberry Pi projects! I’ve gathered up some of the recent projects I’ve found shared around the web. Raspberry Pi Satellite Data Receiver: Raspberry Pi Bar Top Arcade: EEVBlog Raspberry Pi Cluster Computer: NES Classic Mini RetroPie Gaming System: Pi Zero Hand Held Gaming Console: Poison Tap- Pi Zero USB Hacking Exploit: I hope you…

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MKME TV is LIVE 24/7!

October 22, 2016 Comments 0 Comment

For some time now I have been working to lay the groundwork for our own networks and community collaboration tools. One piece of that I had planned was our own TV network for broadcasting our content live 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Back in May I set up the MKME Live YouTube channel (separate from the MKME Lab and MKME Media channels). This week I finally had enough funds to purchase the PC hardware needed to get…

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Community Update

August 14, 2016 Comments 0 Comment

I thought it time for a quick update and share some things going on with the YouTube channel and MKME Community lately. The last few months have been extremely busy. A lot has gone on in the “background” and I’m excited to say that the next few months should bring more updates, announcements, new initiates and video development than any time in the history of the MKME community. Sometime in late Q3/early Q4 2016 you will see this work start…

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What is this object in the night sky?

May 7, 2016 Comments 0 Comment

Last night I took out my Canon 70D to get a few night photos of the sky above Goderich Ontario and caught a bit of a strange object. Being in town there is a tonne of light pollution but I wanted to test out the higher ISO of this camera (far better than my old Pentax). I took a few shots at ISO 3200, 15 second exposure at F3.5 at 18mm on the kit lens. It was a few hours…

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