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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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How to sleeve the investigator cards in Arkham Horror: The Card Game

August 17, 2020 Hans Arkham Horror

A.B.H. Always Be Hacking. Sometimes you get an idea. Sometimes you figure something out on your own. In this case, I saw a comment on

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Gen Con 2020 Online: Arkham Horror LCG Card Council

August 2, 2020 Hans Arkham Horror, Games

Hats off to the team at Fantasy Flight Games for their running of events at Gen Con 2020 Online. It’s a weird year for sure,

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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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Dipping My Toe Into HI-FI Audio

May 11, 2020 Hans Audio, Technology

Audiophiles exist in the world. You might have had a conversation with one of them. You can easily recognize an audiophile when they tell you

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How a Bald Guy Handles Haircuts During the Stay-at-Home Order

April 29, 2020 Hans Comedy

I keep seeing people post on social media about their hair getting out of control after several months of staying at home due to the

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‘On Air’ Light for Microsoft Teams and Zoom Meetings

March 28, 2020 Hans Featured, Hardware, 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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Bill Gates Warned Us. We Didn’t Listen.

March 17, 2020 Hans Articles

Stop. Watch Bill Gates give a TED Talk: The next outbreak? We’re not ready. When YouTube recommended this video to me last night, I assumed

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New Episode of The NotHans Podcast

January 27, 2020 Hans Comedy

Have you checked out my podcast lately? I started one back in 2008 and have faithfully produced episodes and have been your voice of reason

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My new invention… The Frenchie Phone Stand

December 11, 2019 Hans Comedy

As they say, “necessity is the mother of invention.” Although, I am not sure who they are, they just may be right. My dog *needs*

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Divide and Conquer: The Board Game is on Steam!

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