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Control PowerPoint with a $10 Wireless Presenter (and AutoHotkey)

March 16, 2021 Hans Projects

I received a bunch of email after I posted my Stream Deck project to control PowerPoint. Some were happy to see the clues to make

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Stream Deck + AutoHotkey + PowerPoint = You’re Welcome

February 25, 2021 Hans Projects, Technology

I am not a streamer… yet. I work on business plans and PowerPoint presentations all day. Maybe someone would watch me drag clipart around on

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Adding USB Power to the Little Experimenter Telescope for Kids

February 9, 2021 Hans Hardware, Projects, Space

My dad bought my son an early birthday gift: Little Experimenter Telescope for Kids. The telescope’s best feature is a projector that mounts to the

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Reddit Answer: Can I Embed a [MATLAB] Live Script in a WordPress Blog?

February 5, 2021 Hans Projects

Over at r/MATLAB subreddit, someone asked if you can embed a MATLAB live script in a WordPress blog. Since I have access to MATLAB and

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Adafruit Matrix Portal LED Display Diffused Acrylic Stand

December 8, 2020 Hans CheerLights, Projects, ThingSpeak

I bought some parts over at Adafruit to build some ThingSpeak and CheerLights projects. If you know me, I am always attracted to multicolored lights

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Arcade Cabinet Upgrade: Custom Acrylic Sign with RGB Backlight

June 9, 2020 Hans Games, Hardware, Projects

As someone said, “always leave things better than you found them… especially people.” I have co-opted this motto in my life. I try to help

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‘On Air’ Light for Microsoft Teams and Zoom Meetings

March 28, 2020 Hans Featured, Hardware, Projects, Projects, ThingSpeak

Back in the 90’s, the 1990’s, I used to be a late-night radio show host on Froggy. I was known as Jeremiah Bullfrog. When I

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Building My Own Board Game Table

September 17, 2019 Hans Arkham Horror, Games, Projects

Thou shalt not covet. When it comes to board game tables, I am almost willing to break a commandment. Very fancy board game tables have

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Real-time Colors on CheerLights

June 27, 2019 Hans CheerLights, Hardware, Projects, ThingSpeak

CheerLights now supports the MQTT protocol. This means that devices and apps can receive real-time updates to changes in the CheerLights color without polling for

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Your Physical Interface with Uber!

February 1, 2016 Hans Projects

Want to see/hear how far the closest Uber is from you? All you have to do is press a button on an AWS IoT connected

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