I recently ran into a situation where I needed to run a test with a Québec City IP address. I checked every well-known VPN provider for their server lists, but none had servers specifically in Québec City. After additional research, I found it’s possible to create an Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway in Canada East and have the VM use the linked VNet as a NIC.
more ...Communication is expanding rapidly in this day and age. We have texting, e-mail, Slack, Discord, Skype, FaceTime, Facebook Messenger, LINE, and the list goes on. Geeks (and, by association, the FOSS community) tend to embrace counterculture, which is why they thoroughly adopt IRC.
more ...Last time I tried something like this, I was inspired by Lee Hutchinson’s web server guide and mail server guide. Therefore, I set out setting up a web and mail server on a home PC to learn more about Internet services, as he suggested.
more ...While reviewing file archives, I found the Microprocessor Systems Lab website I maintained while I was a TA in university!
Jeez, the memories…
It includes all the instructional documents I made outside of lab time.
It’s an old website, so many of the links don’t work anymore (except …
more ...RPN is also called postfix notation. To sum, it is a mathematical notation in which operators follow their operands (e.g. “3+6” is equivalent to “36+”) and it generally does not include parenthesis.
Our task is to create an RPN Calculator …
To learn more about social media APIs and new programming languages, I designed a bot that helps users call bases from within reddit during Clash of Clans Clan Wars. I wanted to let users manage Clan Wars from within reddit without using another website. Furthermore, by being a third …
To learn more about Internet services, I built my own home web and mail server.
I used an Acer Aspire E360 that was going to be thrown away to build a Plone web server, Dovecot mail server, and Postfix mail transfer agent.
I installed CentOS 6 and …
For our Senior Project, we designed, built, and programmed a system capable of counting occupants in a room.
To this end, we used an MSP430 microcontroller to interface with a solid-state relay, two sets of both IR receivers and IR LEDs, and a PIR motion sensor to count the number …
more ...While completing my university coursework, we were individually tasked with constructing a robot capable of autonomously navigating a maze consisting of turns and dead-ends to show mastery of microcontroller logic and interface.
To this end, I programmed a Motorola 9S12 microcontroller to interface with servos for propulsion and created routines …
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