XIDAX PixInsight Powerhouse Part 1 of 2!!

Intro It's been eight months since my last blog post or YouTube video. I'd planned to keep adding value-packed content based on Astro and technical stuff, but life and work intervened. It's been a crazy eight months, but I won't bore you with the details. I will just...

ASIAIR ANYWHERE

Intro So this question came up on the ASIAIR Facebook group about controlling your ASIAIR and Telescope equipment from California and all your gear would be in New Mexico. I thought I would tackle it with some information and also a little know-how since I love doing...

ASIAIR PRO + PI 5

Intro So I have officially gutted an ASIAIR PRO and replaced the internal board with a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB of RAM and the new Active Cooler. Based on the benchmarks from Core Electronics, the speed we are looking at is almost double from the RPi 4 to the Pi 5!...
Man Shaving

Man Shaving

Like most adult men I need to shave, be it for work, or just keeping clean. The problem with shaving is technology has tricked you and me. I remember as a child in the 1980's watching my father shave, and what I remember was he had an Old Spice Mug and a Brush to...

(TV, Internet, Phone) Bills Killing you?

(TV, Internet, Phone) Bills Killing you?

So like most Americans in this rough financial crisis, we are all trying to save a few bucks. Before I switched to the new setup I had paid Comcast a total of $837.51 for HD TV, Hi-Speed Internet, and Phone service from Jan - May 2011. While I have nothing against...

ClearView RC Simulator & Spektrum DX6i

ClearView RC Simulator & Spektrum DX6i

Well, I just had my birthday past and my wonderful wife bought me a Spektrum DX6i remote. It's an incredible remote that flies my E-Flite MSR like a dream, compared to the base remote that came with it. Now that I have a man remote I wanted to start learning how to...

1st Post

1st Post

So here I am years later still owning the same domain I have had since  Nov 23, 2001, @ 16:32:10. I used to be one of the first bloggers before any software was available to blog. I then moved to Movable Type, Blogger, and a handful of other blogging software before I...