Author: jcianci12
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Fixing Drone Builds Stuck Pending: Target the Right Runner
We recently hit a simple but frustrating Drone CI problem: a deployment build would just sit in pending. Nothing was building. Nothing was failing. The job was just waiting for a free agent. The catch was that there was no suitable agent available for that pipeline. The Symptom In Drone, a build can stay pending when…
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3d Design, engineering, and printing services at Beenleigh.
Here at tekonline, we love design work. We are used to creating quality 3d designs that serve a real purpose. For example, here are a few real world products that we have produced. If you have an idea for a product, but you need it designed/printed, we can help with competitive rates, and rapid turnaround.…
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Beginner’s Guide to EasyEDA Pro, JLCPCB Parts, LCSC Stock, and Why Your Part Shows Up Rotated
When you are new to PCB design and assembly, it is surprisingly easy to get tripped up by things that seem like they should “just work.” We recently went through this with a small illuminated through-hole button in EasyEDA Pro and JLCPCB, and along the way learned a bunch of useful beginner lessons that would…
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OrcaSlicer, Creality K1 Max, Moonraker, and Mainsail: first steps for new owners finding their feet
The setup This test was done against a Creality K1 Max on 192.168.2.136 while the printer was actively running a job. The slicer was OrcaSlicer 2.3.2. This was not a fresh-from-box machine. It had just been bought second-hand from Facebook Marketplace, so part of the job was simply working out how the printer had already been set up,…
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How to duty cycle HVAC zones with Home Assistant
Here is a handy script that can help with automating your zone duty cycle, for this you will need to set up a slider card, and have your zone controller working in home assistant. You can find the 4 zone controller here or the 8 zoner here.
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3d design and printing services.
Located at Beenleigh, 4207 we can design, prototype 3d anything you need!
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SongWalk and the Lost Art of Sharing Music
There was a time when finding music felt personal. You heard a song on late-night radio and waited with your finger over the record button, hoping the DJ would stop talking before the intro ended. You carried around cassettes with handwritten labels, CD wallets full of scratched burns, and a Discman that skipped the second…
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The Perils of Solar Battery Rebates and Why Homeowners Feel Like They’re Being Taken for a Ride
Australians love a rebate. On paper, it sounds simple: the government offers a generous discount, households get cheaper batteries, and everyone wins. In reality, rebates can create a pricing fog that makes it much harder for ordinary people to tell what something should actually cost. That is exactly why so many homeowners come away from…
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SongWalk – Local Hosted Music Sharing Made Easy
SongWalk is a retro-inspired music dropbox for friends, collaborators, and families who need to share libraries without the noise of mainstream cloud storage. The new SongWalk brand keeps the same battle-tested songshare backend but wraps it in a polished AV-style skin, a fresh logo, and a single-cross-platform quick-share script that covers both local Python and Docker deployments. Why SongWalk?…
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EasyEDA Pro test points and PCBA BOM exports: the unintuitive checkbox that finally fixed it
If you are sending a board off for assembly and your manufacturer keeps asking why your test points are in the BOM, here is the fix that finally worked for me in EasyEDA Pro. I had a set of test points that were just bare PCB pads. No fitted part. No metal loop. Nothing to…