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1 For whom it may concern, Public Domain 2020 02 Steaker9 Books Steak Electronics: 2018 - 2019 February 17, 2020 Henrik Wilkkom´er 3 Preface: Welcome to my little book of stories from 2018 - 2019. Here is where I've put some of my time towards various electronics projects, among other things. Repairs: Here we will start out with an HP Pavilion 15. This one ended up not being fixed, due to repair-man error - I shorted a regulator while working on this. Be careful in there. From there, we will visit my car's transmission. Which had a cable chewed up one day by a hungry lapin1. This repair was a success. The next article is from a Harbor Freight drill which failed within weeks of purchase (No surprise). The lesson: Don't buy anything but the simplest goods from Harbor Freight. Be wary of electronics there. Then, we have a bluetooth speaker, a Sony PVM, a Weller soldering iron that was returned under warranty and a Bose Cinemate speaker from a craiglist patron, which was repaired, and also tore down. Finally, a washing machine was repaired, after some padding got through the tub into the drain (fault of bedding that was failling apart, though repair was successful). How did I obtain so many devices to repair? I put an ad on craigslist that offered free repair of electronics. In an effort to educate myself, and assist people... A great idea for anyone learning and has time. Electronics: In 2018 - Two projects in which I pursued. One, a board to monitor air quality levels, the other a dabbling interest in solar and battery power. In 2019, I break into a stenography machine, following in other's footsteps. I also build a Flammable Gas Sensor, and a motion sensor for CCTV installations. IT: I cover conduit, and a short review of the Honeywell T6 Internet connected thermostat, an early IoT device. A number of software pages, including fail2ban, docker, transmission (torrenting), mdadm, and how to install an IP Camera outside. I'm also putting these and similar articles on Steakwiki.com. Another article in this section, covers making a portable camera recording box. Useful let's say, if you were working on site and wanted to record everything through rain or snow. While it doesn't yet have solar or battery, that is the next step. Research. Develop. Test. Improve.2 Carpentry: I enjoy doing real work3, and two carpentry hobbies I've 1Rabbit 2Borrowed from online forum. 3As opposed to busywork. taken to are hard floors, specifically stone (tile), and hardwood flooring. Dust has a harder time accumulating on hard floors, and they are thus cleaner. Rugs, I think should be shunned, perhaps outlawed. Rugs are always a bad idea. Story Book: Here are political and moral writings. Join me as I navigate through the waters of corruption, copyright, greed, and illogical thinking. I'll cover why the stock market is a step back for society, and why jails should be reformed into education camps. Don't forget to eat some garlic every once in a while. But, don't overcook your steak. Keep it rare, and stick to clean animals. Finally, I'll cover what I should've learned in school. I'll be replacing English with Reading class, and getting rid of Math class in favor of trades that incorporate Applied Math. No more theoretical math. Only practical trades. Finally, whatever you do, do not overpopulate the planet. If there is one message I hope to get across, it's that humans must limit themselves, or nature will do it for them4. Magical Book: This section of the book is a mixer, including touchy subjects such as cannabis. As a preface: I do NOT advocate habitual usage of any mind altering substance. Including alcohol. Drugs have done enough damage to our neighborhoods, and its evident by looking around. The world tends to use too much drugs, and this is evident in our cities and towns (which are falling apart). However, on the 0.001% of time of your year that may be allowed to not be sober, one might step out of \normal" life for a moment, and a journal of growing one tool 5 for this is covered here. On the other side of the plant world, I cover an extremely dangerous plant, of which you should remember to respect, or suffer the consequences. All of this book is intended to be taken as light reading. It is public domain, as I believe in free and open culture. You may take and use what you want of this book, as well as my music. I may ask that if you deem it worthy, and can afford without any inconvenience, to pay me what you find this worth. Alternatively, I've been quite limited in my finances for my life until now, and also understand if you must read these words without any financial tribute. I am with you there. We live in an age where technology allows for duplication of words, and media without cost, so let them be duplicated. Let not corruption and greed stand in the way of distributing information, entertainment, and knowledge. Such jobs are not jobs anyways. Save the carpenter, but let the jester starve. Let the scientist give up all hidden secrets. Shun those who obfuscate. 4Asimov, Frontiers 5drugs are tools, not toys. Play with tools, and get hurt. 5 Contents 1 Repairs 7 1.1 HP Pavilion . .8 1.2 Transmission Repair . 20 1.3 Harbor Freight Drill . 25 1.4 Bluetooth Speaker: NYNE Bass . 30 1.5 Sony PVM-14M4U . 34 1.6 Weller WDS51 . 42 1.7 Bose Cinemate . 45 1.8 Maytag Washing Machine . 51 2 IT 54 2.1 Running Conduit . 54 2.2 Honeywell T6 Pro Review . 59 2.3 RAID GnuLinux: MDADM - Reference . 63 2.4 Docker Primer . 68 2.5 Windows 7 Licensing . 75 2.6 Fail2Ban Primer . 77 2.7 AutoSSH - A Reverse Proxy Alternative . 83 2.8 Transmission Primer . 87 2.9 Installing an Outdoor IP Camera . 91 2.10 Portable Camera Recording Box . 98 3 Electronics 125 3.1 Air Quality Sensor Board . 125 3.2 Home Solar Logger . 139 3.3 ProCAT Flash Modification . 145 3.4 ZMHW Modector . 152 3.5 Flammable Gas Sensor . 171 4 Carpentry 180 4.1 Home Tiling . 180 4.2 Hardwood Flooring . 191 5 Story Book 210 5.1 Snowboarding is inferior to Skiing . 210 5.2 On Eating Only Meat . 214 5.3 On Where to Live and Genes . 215 5.4 Misc . 216 5.5 Jobs the World Needs . 217 6 5.6 On Guitar, Bass, and Drums . 219 5.7 Casino . 222 5.8 Paint . 224 5.9 Cleaning . 225 5.10 Alcoholism . 227 5.11 Stock Market . 229 5.12 Meat Grinder . 231 5.13 Art Can't Be Perfect . 232 5.14 Misc Part Two . 233 5.15 Satire . 235 5.16 A Lost Opportunity for Wachusett . 237 5.17 Power Corrupts . 240 5.18 Working for Google . 241 5.19 Dog Face Leashes . 243 5.20 Sports is Wrestling . 245 5.21 Water . 246 5.22 Free Stuff on the Internet . 247 5.23 Jails . 248 5.24 The Solution to Most of the World's Problems . 250 5.25 What I Shoud've Learned in School . 251 5.26 How to Run . 254 5.27 Fear of Impractical Dangers . 255 5.28 Most People Have No Idea How to Cook Meat . 256 5.29 Telling the Quality of a Stringed Instrument . 259 5.30 Eagerness to Take Medications . 260 5.31 Insanity in Modern Life: Cow's Milk . 261 5.32 Tools, not Toys . 263 5.33 The Garlic Page . 264 6 Magical Book 265 6.1 Zoneminder RPI3 Testing . 265 6.2 KiCad Primer . 276 6.3 Bubblegum Report . 284 6.4 Poison Ivy Guide . 288 7 Bibliography 298 7.1 References . 298 7 Repairs \They will talk down monkey see, monkey do, implying it is a bad thing. In machine instruction culture, there are coined terms, such as `code mon- key' and `cargo cult programming'. In fact, observing someone doing some- thing, and then emulating them is how humans have learned skills for thou- sands of years. From talking, to riding a bike, to any trade you can imag- ine.\ -Targes Attenuator \For millions of years, in millions of homes A man loved a woman, a child it was born It learned how to walk and it learned how to talk Like humans do " -Variation of song by David Byrne HP Pavilion 15 Repair Steak Electronics 1 Overview User spilled tonic water on a laptop, then kept it powered on and continued to use it (this was a mistake. Turning it off, and removing battery / power, letting the liquid dry, is always the first step in a spill)1. The next morning the laptop would not power on. 2 Equipment Laptop is an HP Pavilion 15 CS model. They are fairly new (date codes on micros are from 2018), and retailing around 500-600 dollars as of just before 2019. 1the second mistake, is trying to turn on the power again, after it gets liquid on it, but before it dries. The safety circuits on the board may shut it off, but its up to the user to know when to turn it on. Debatable engineering, but at least you never get locked out of turning on the computer 1 Figure 1: HP 3 Disassembly There is no video tutorial on this online, but the steps are: Re- move visible screws from the back of the case.