Python, REAPER, and a Stream Deck? What do those things have in common? Is this one of those weird games? Not really. This is how I hooked up a Stream-Deck controller to control my REAPER audio software.<\/p>","pubDate":"Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:44:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2026-04-15:\/triggering-reaper-recording-from-python.html","category":["Python","audio","daw","python","reaper","scripting","stream-deck","ubuntu","linux"]},{"title":"More Python Nonsense","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/more-python-nonsense.html","description":"
You asked... so here it is! A whole bunch of random Python goodies. Things to help you get started, to learn about the language, to go deeper... and more!<\/p>","pubDate":"Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:07:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2026-04-14:\/more-python-nonsense.html","category":["Python","education","electrical-engineering","learning","online","programming","python","resources","teaching"]},{"title":"Smello World? For HTTP Requests","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/smello-world-with-http.html","description":"
A short article, but hopefully getting a jump on getting back in the habbit of documenting what I'm up to. Check out this cool tool!<\/p>","pubDate":"Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:47:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2026-03-31:\/smello-world-with-http.html","category":["Python","python","http","web","requests","httpx","rest","api"]},{"title":"Digital Media with Idaho 4-H Youth","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/digital-media-with-idaho-4h-youth.html","description":"
Idaho 4-H youth are astounding, aren't they? The things they'll do, the accomplishments they'll achieve. The distances they'll go. It's just awesome. These future leaders can do some amazing things. This last weekend at KYG is a perfect example of it. Read on to see more about how the Video Editor did an incredible job producing some great content.<\/p>","pubDate":"Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:09:00 -0800","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2026-02-17:\/digital-media-with-idaho-4h-youth.html","category":["Youth","4h","audio","digital-media","idaho","media","recording","video","youth","youtube"]},{"title":"Complex, Calculated Coffee!","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/complex-calculated-coffee.html","description":"
Admit it, you've always wanted an overly-complex coffee-making machine, haven't you? Something that's innately simple to use, but a complex masterpiece to marvel at; especially on those early Saturday mornings when the caffeine hasn't kicked in yet. Well, I've done it. I've built just that. I call it... the 5282. Let me explain.<\/p>","pubDate":"Fri, 09 May 2025 07:36:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2025-05-09:\/complex-calculated-coffee.html","category":["education","coffee","coffee-maker","control","controller","digital-logic","logic","plc","programming","relay","iot","selogic"]},{"title":"Jupyter Lab Setup for Electrical Engineers","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/jupyter-lab-setup-for-electrical-engineers.html","description":"
Over the years, I've tried a few installation methods for Jupyter Notebooks and Jupyter lab. I've finally found one that I think is a little simpler than some of the others. Let me share that now for the benefit of Electrical Engineering students.<\/p>","pubDate":"Tue, 25 Mar 2025 06:49:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2025-03-25:\/jupyter-lab-setup-for-electrical-engineers.html","category":["education","calculations","jupyter","lab","notebook","python","research","study","university"]},{"title":"A Collaborative Word Cloud for Teaching","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/a-collaborative-wordcloud-for-teaching.html","description":"
A few months ago I wrapped up some work on a fun little project I developed for some teaching exercises. Let me tell you about it!<\/p>","pubDate":"Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:35:00 -0800","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2024-11-26:\/a-collaborative-wordcloud-for-teaching.html","category":["development","python","react","teaching","youth","software","development","fastapi","material-ui"]},{"title":"Basic Auth without the Hubub in NGINX","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/basic-auth-without-the-hubub-in-nginx.html","description":"
Today I learned that it IS possible to make a relatively simple static site that has some automatic authentication built in to NGINX that will use a custom HTML file for the login page as opposed to the basic-auth prompt that gets so annoying.<\/p>","pubDate":"Fri, 08 Nov 2024 20:49:00 -0800","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2024-11-08:\/basic-auth-without-the-hubub-in-nginx.html","category":["development","auth","html","http","nginx","proxy"]},{"title":"Making Portable Digital Learning","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/making-portable-digital-learning.html","description":"
With all of these 4-H activities that I've been helping with, I've been in my car. A lot. That means that I don't always have access to great internet, great resources, and I can't always connect home to my servers, there. I've decided to combat that by building a single, portable network. A network in a box, if you will. Here's how I did it.<\/p>","pubDate":"Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:41:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2024-09-03:\/making-portable-digital-learning.html","category":["Self-Hosted","server","portable","learning","education","rpi","raspberry-pi","linux","open-source","gl.inet","python","nginx"]},{"title":"I'm Presenting at LinuxFest Northwest 2024!","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/presenting-at-linux-fest-northwest-2024.html","description":"
This is it... My first non-work-related technical presentation at a conference. It's pretty exciting! It's right in my own back yard, even! I'm presenting at LinuxFest Northwest, 2024!<\/p>","pubDate":"Thu, 25 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2024-04-25:\/presenting-at-linux-fest-northwest-2024.html","category":["Conferences","lecture","education","presentation","4h","youth","pyd","students","programming","conferences"]},{"title":"First Time as a Guest Lecturer?","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/first-time-as-a-guest-lecturer.html","description":"
Recently, I was asked to provide a guest lecture. That was a first, for me, and was very fun getting prepared for the lecture. Don't get too excited, it wasn't anything wild, but it was a lot of fun!<\/p>","pubDate":"Sat, 20 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2024-04-20:\/first-time-as-a-guest-lecturer.html","category":["Youth","lecture","education","college","4h","youth","pyd","students"]},{"title":"Electronics Dissection - Amping Up","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/electronics-dissection-amping-up.html","description":"
Stand back... electronics are flying EVERYWHERE! Here's some info on those electronics dissection activities that I've been hosting around Idaho.<\/p>","pubDate":"Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:45:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2024-04-18:\/electronics-dissection-amping-up.html","category":["Youth","youth","4h","electronics","electricity","hacking","exploration","dissection","investigation"]},{"title":"TX\/RX Swapping Made EZ","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/tx-rx-swapping-made-ez.html","description":"
This little prototyping \"hack\" was just too good not to share.<\/p>","pubDate":"Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:29:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2024-04-17:\/tx-rx-swapping-made-ez.html","category":["EngrTips","electronics","pcb","design","kicad","circuits","circuitry","electricity","prototyping"]},{"title":"The 4-H Lineup (for Spring, 2024)","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/the-4-h-lineup-for-spring-2024.html","description":"
Holy cow... did somebody order a whole bunch of 4-H activities? Oh... I think that might've been me.<\/p>","pubDate":"Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:52:00 -0800","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2024-01-24:\/the-4-h-lineup-for-spring-2024.html","category":["Youth","youth","4h","swine","teen-leadership","leadership","engagement","education","learning","higher-education","fair","travel"]},{"title":"Quick-n-Simple Photo Converter (for HEIC format)","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/quick-n-simple-photo-converter.html","description":"
Those techy, geeks in the audience that use an iPhone probably recognize that the photos they take are in a format that's generally a little... Tricky to use with other resources. Seems I most frequently run into this issue when working on updating my blog with pictures that I took on my phone. I really would much rather use a I've finally gotten around to getting some basic configurations with my Listmonk mailing list system going. I got started with configurations for the Idaho 4-H Roundup podcast (did I mention I've started a podcast?), but now I'm also getting one started for my blog site. Here's how I added the HTML to get it working here.<\/p>","pubDate":"Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:52:00 -0800","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2024-01-04:\/adding-a-subscription-system-to-my-blog.html","category":["Blogging","blog","website","html","python","pelican","jinja2","static-site","mailing-list","listmonk","email","newsletter"]},{"title":"Adding Search to my Pelican Blog Site","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/adding-search-to-my-pelican-blog-site.html","description":" I'm quickly approaching the mark of 50 blog posts, which is wonderful! But it also means that finding that \"thing\" I wrote some time ago is becoming an increasing challenge. So... I need to add search to my blog site. But how? It's a static site, after all, there's not really a \"backend\" to do the search functionality for me... Luckily, there's some wonderful folks who've written tooling to add just this functionality. Here's how I added it to my blog site!<\/p>","pubDate":"Tue, 26 Dec 2023 11:45:00 -0800","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2023-12-26:\/adding-search-to-my-pelican-blog-site.html","category":["Blogging","blog","search","python","stork","static-site","html","jinja2","website"]},{"title":"How Many Protocols Does it Take to Open a Door?","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/how-many-protocols-does-it-take-to-open-a-door.html","description":" It's just a garage door, right? It's just a switch, right? How hard can it be to automate it? In this article, I explore the connections between a number of projects which I've been working on for quite some time, now.<\/p>","pubDate":"Mon, 25 Dec 2023 14:45:00 -0800","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2023-12-25:\/how-many-protocols-does-it-take-to-open-a-door.html","category":["Home-Automation","home-automation","home-assistant","mqtt","sel","sel-protocol","open-source","relay","automation"]},{"title":"Custom Lightning on Demand","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/custom-lightning-on-demand.html","description":" Clearly I haven't written in a while. I've been busy with all manner of projects, of late. However, since this will be mostly video and image posting, I thought it couldn't hurt to get a quick article up.<\/p>","pubDate":"Wed, 01 Nov 2023 10:00:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2023-11-01:\/custom-lightning-on-demand.html","category":["Home-Improvement","effects","lighting","lightning","lights-alive","halloween","audio","home-automation","shelly","home-assistant","hassio"]},{"title":"Dissecting Computers for the First Time?","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/dissecting-computers-for-the-first-time.html","description":" Computers are so intricate, complex, and finely tuned that it can be scary for young folks to spend any significant time getting their hands on the hardware, and really exploring. What's more, it's not common for people to really understand what parts make up a computer, and how they can be used.<\/p>","pubDate":"Sun, 19 Mar 2023 12:13:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2023-03-19:\/dissecting-computers-for-the-first-time.html","category":["Youth","4-h","youth","computers","workshop","teen","learning","education","hands-on","recycling","technology","linux"]},{"title":"KYG 2023","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/kyg-2023.html","description":" I was very happy to participate in the Idaho 4-H \"Know Your Government\" (KYG) Conference in Boise this past weekend. Let me tell you, it was an absolute blast! I loved it! And what's more, I think the youth loved it, too.<\/p>","pubDate":"Tue, 21 Feb 2023 21:19:00 -0800","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2023-02-21:\/kyg-2023.html","category":["Youth","4-h","youth","conference","government","learning","legislature","leadership","capitol"]},{"title":"Updated Wiki Page for Capstone Projects","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/updated-wiki-page-for-capstone-projects.html","description":" I've often written about the various bits of project work pertaining to my Engineering Capstones. I'm proud to say that they've made some really impressive steps, and for that I'm both thankful and very proud. But until now, it's been a bit of a mess trying to put all that information in one place. Now, I'm getting better about that!<\/p>","pubDate":"Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:42:00 -0800","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2023-01-22:\/updated-wiki-page-for-capstone-projects.html","category":["Capstone","wiki","wikijs","markdown","capstone","self-hosted","container","docker"]},{"title":"Making Configuration for a Python Application Simple!","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/making-configuration-for-a-python-application-simple.html","description":" If you're a nerd like me, you can probably think of your favorite self-hosted application right now. Better yet, you can probably think of all the reasons you love it. You know, one of the staples of a great self-hosted application is its ability to make the configuration your own<\/em> and do so easily! I've been working on a number of little applications lately and they all need configuration, so I've started setting this up with the help of Python and TOML!<\/p>","pubDate":"Tue, 17 Jan 2023 14:23:00 -0800","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2023-01-17:\/making-configuration-for-a-python-application-simple.html","category":["Python","python","toml","configuration","development","environment-variables","dot-files"]},{"title":"Packaging Single File Python Projects","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/packaging-single-file-python-projects.html","description":" Somehow, I've managed to build quite a few random Python package, and contribute to others. I've recently been working towards converting all of the Python projects I manage to the new pyproject.toml standards for packaging, and I've recently had to work through an interesting little challenge for some of the projects which only contain a sigle Python file. No module folder, no We know that I'm something of an audio buff. I love having music around me all the time. But isn't that becoming more of a staple in the American home, anyway? I certainly think so. There's lots of folks who are also listening to music all the time. I have my own personal preferences, though. (Shocker, I know.) The thing is, I want my audio system to tie nicely into my home. I want play\/pause buttons scattered around, and well... I've got more demands.<\/p>","pubDate":"Sun, 15 Jan 2023 13:52:00 -0800","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2023-01-15:\/python-pianobar-and-mqtt.html","category":["Python","python","pianobar","mqtt","http","configuration","pandora","music","streaming","audio","home-automation","networking"]},{"title":"Using Pipewire Link to Bridge the Gaps","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/using-pipewire-link-to-bridge-the-gaps.html","description":" I'm ready to manage my audio \"wiring\" a bit more virtually, these days, and I'm ready to do that with some of the cool new tools available in Linux. Luckily for me, Pipewire has some command-line applications that make doing that an absolute cinch! And what's better, I can do it from Python, and make it a little more automagic. Now THAT's what I'm talking about!<\/p>","pubDate":"Mon, 09 Jan 2023 09:00:00 -0800","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2023-01-09:\/using-pipewire-link-to-bridge-the-gaps.html","category":["Audio","linux","audio","networking","pipewire","alsa","sound","terminal","command-line"]},{"title":"The Ranch (KRNC) Gets a Face Lift","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/the-ranch-gets-a-face-lift.html","description":" So, I've got an old (1992) Ford pickup, and it's got a newer-ish stereo. I love keeping my favorite tunes on a USB stick that I can play everything from, but I HATE it when the volume changes from one song to the next. I go from barely being able to hear the music to having my eardrums blown out in 0.5 seconds. So, I've come to the conclusion that I need to fix that. With PYTHON!<\/p>","pubDate":"Sun, 08 Jan 2023 12:00:00 -0800","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2023-01-08:\/the-ranch-gets-a-face-lift.html","category":["Python","linux","audio","python","ffmpeg","sound","terminal","command-line","flet","flutter","application","krnc"]},{"title":"I'm Giving Up on Low-Level Audio in Linux","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/giving-up-on-low-level-linux-audio.html","description":" I'm so fed up with low-level audio in Linux. It's a constant struggle, and I'm throwing in the towel. I'm done.<\/p>","pubDate":"Sun, 08 Jan 2023 10:00:00 -0800","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2023-01-08:\/giving-up-on-low-level-linux-audio.html","category":["Audio","linux","audio","networking","pipewire","alsa","sound"]},{"title":"Adding Radon Sensors to Home Assistant","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/adding-radon-sensors-to-homeassistant.html","description":" Radon - an colorless, oderless gas. Sounds familiar, right? But you've probably heard that phrase in relation to other gasses like the carbon-monoxide, or perhaps natural gas. Radon poses health threats, as well, but with the added benefit of radiation. Scared yet? Don't worry.<\/p>","pubDate":"Sat, 24 Dec 2022 10:40:00 -0800","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2022-12-24:\/adding-radon-sensors-to-homeassistant.html","category":["Home-Improvement","homeassistant","home-assistant","hasio","airthings","ble","bluetooth","wireless","radon","air","quality"]},{"title":"Installing VBAN on Linux Systems with Pipewire","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/installing-vban-on-linux-with-pipewire.html","description":" I recently decided to drop Windows (finally), and move to Linux, full-time. But that means moving to Pipewire; which is both exciting and slightly daugnting. You see, to make the move, I need to get VBAN working on Linux, and talking to Pipewire. Hmm. Time to do some digging...<\/p>","pubDate":"Sun, 18 Dec 2022 10:00:00 -0800","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2022-12-18:\/installing-vban-on-linux-with-pipewire.html","category":["Audio","vban","audio","networking","linux","pipewire","alsa","sound"]},{"title":"Reverse Proxying to two Git Servers","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/reverse-proxying-to-two-git-servers.html","description":" I'm quite the self-hosting fiend. That's well-established, at this point, but I wanted to go into some of the details about my recent adventures, exposing SSH service to both my GitLab and Gitea servers.<\/p>","pubDate":"Mon, 21 Nov 2022 13:54:00 -0800","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2022-11-21:\/reverse-proxying-to-two-git-servers.html","category":["Self-Hosting","git","self-hosting","nginx","gitlab","gitea","ssh","proxy","networking"]},{"title":"My Way of Intalling Python on Windows in 2022","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/my-way-of-installing-python-on-windows-in-2022.html","description":" Finally! Python 3.11 is out! It's new, it's fast(er than previous Python versions), and it's got some dandy new features. And if you wanted to know how I go about putting it on a Windows machine, let me show you...<\/p>","pubDate":"Wed, 02 Nov 2022 18:41:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2022-11-02:\/my-way-of-installing-python-on-windows-in-2022.html","category":["Python","python","windows","development","installing"]},{"title":"Spooky Scary Porch Projects","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/spooky-scary-porch-projects.html","description":" It's been a crazy month, but isn't that how Halloween is supposed to be, anyway? Crazy? Well, maybe not like this. Let me explain...<\/p>","pubDate":"Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:41:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2022-11-01:\/spooky-scary-porch-projects.html","category":["Home-Improvement","effects","lighting","lights-alive","halloween","audio","home-automation"]},{"title":"Starting Jenkins Right Away in Winders","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/starting-jenkins-right-away-in-winders.html","description":" Jenkins is a powerful, albeit confusing, tool. You can structure all manner of automated processes to build source code, distribute packages, and automate the boring stuff. It's great! But Jenkins and Windows (or... Winders<\/em>) don't always play nicely. I learned this the hard way in my \"day-job\" and had to find a technique to resolve some of this bad-behavior. So hopefully you might find this helpful!<\/p>","pubDate":"Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:25:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2022-10-24:\/starting-jenkins-right-away-in-winders.html","category":["DevOps","devops","jenkins","ci\/cd","continuous-integration","continuous-deployment","build-systems","automation","windows"]},{"title":"Finding Broken Blog Links","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/finding-broken-blog-links.html","description":" Well, I just recently converted to a new Nextcloud instance at home. Gosh, I sure hope I wasn't using any of those links externally on any important websites like a blog, or anything... Oh. I was? Awkward...<\/p>","pubDate":"Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:00:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2022-10-24:\/finding-broken-blog-links.html","category":["Blogging","python","blogging","automation","github","github-actions","ci\/cd","continuous-integration","continuous-deployment"]},{"title":"Mount St. Helens Adventures","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/mt-st-helens-adventures.html","description":" Ok, so I clearly wasn't alive when Mount St. Helens blew its lid in May of 1980; but that doesn't mean that I haven't had some adventures of my own with the eruption's aftermath! I spent this Labor Day with my mother, working on some improvements to the front porch celing; prepping it for some new tongue-and-groove Cedar boards, new lights, and even speakers. But before any of the new... we need to get rid of the old...<\/p>","pubDate":"Tue, 06 Sep 2022 19:43:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2022-09-06:\/mt-st-helens-adventures.html","category":["Home-Improvement","home-improvement","home-projects","home-renovation","improvement","renovation","restoration"]},{"title":"Making Drawing Circuits in Markdown a Cinch!","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/making-drawing-circuits-in-markdown-a-cinch.html","description":" I've talked about how someone can make PlantUML diagrams come to life, directly in markdown for blog-sites, and I've touched on other automation techniques I use to make blogs come together from plain text, but how about some circuit diagrams? Well, there wasn't a neat tool to help make this a possibility, until now!<\/p>","pubDate":"Tue, 30 Aug 2022 13:01:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2022-08-30:\/making-drawing-circuits-in-markdown-a-cinch.html","category":["Python","markdown","pelican","blogging","circuits","schematics","python"]},{"title":"Scraping the ISP Router to Support Self-Hosting","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/scraping-the-isp-router-to-support-selfhosting.html","description":" To host my home services, I need to be able to have a dynamic-DNS, and to do that, I've been using DuckDNS (a great service, by the way), but it's time that I start getting more serious, and remove theCNAME from my domain, and get something a little more proper. But... to do that, I'll need my public IP. Good thing my ISP-provided-router displays that on the front page! Now, it's time for just a little Python...<\/p>","pubDate":"Fri, 26 Aug 2022 16:27:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2022-08-26:\/scraping-the-isp-router-to-support-selfhosting.html","category":["Self-Hosting","self-hosting","isp","router","networks","ethernet","servers","networking"]},{"title":"RheoRailroad - A Digital Toy Train Set","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/rheo-railroad-a-digital-toy-train.html","description":" Model railroading has always played close to new technology. I mean, after all Lionel used an electric motor back when they were still relatively new to make the first electric toy train. I'm continuing in that tradition, but doing it at my own speed, making an electric toy train speed-control that I can control from the palm of my hand. That's right, from my phone!<\/p>","pubDate":"Tue, 23 Aug 2022 17:00:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2022-08-23:\/rheo-railroad-a-digital-toy-train.html","category":["Model-Railroading","arduino","electro-mechanical","smart-home","development","platformio","toy-trains","lionel","model-railroading","esp8266"]},{"title":"Making Feline Stink a Distant Memory","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/making-feline-stink-a-distant-memory.html","description":" We all love our pets, but nobody likes cleaning up after them when they \"do their business,\" right? Well, I'm in that same boat. It's the reason I have a \"Cat Closet,\" where my automatic litterbox is located. Trouble is, when he uses it, that thing gets to stinkin' - and pretty quick too! Thus, I've come to a resolution with a new home-automation system. I call it \"ScentAssist.\" Let me explain...<\/p>","pubDate":"Thu, 04 Aug 2022 15:52:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2022-08-04:\/making-feline-stink-a-distant-memory.html","category":["Home-Improvement","arduino","electro-mechanical","smart-home","development","platformio","pets","exhaust"]},{"title":"Photos in the Nick of Time at STAC","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/photos-in-the-nick-of-time-at-stac.html","description":" Well. It was here, and now it's gone. The Idaho State Teen Association Convention, or STAC - as we fondly call it, has come and gone. It was a great week of little sleep, much excitement, and lots of smiles; but what's more, is that we had some technology wins and losses to talk about. Thank you, Python!<\/p>","pubDate":"Sat, 02 Jul 2022 11:25:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2022-07-02:\/photos-in-the-nick-of-time-at-stac.html","category":["Youth","python","react.js","4-h","fastapi","materialui","linode"]},{"title":"Making Progress with Capstones","link":"https:\/\/blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com\/making-progress-with-capstones.html","description":" Over the last two years, I've become more involved as a project sponsor for some University of Idaho Engineering Capstone projects, and I'm very excited about their growth. Progress may be slow, but it's incremental, and we're approaching goals, which is always exciting!<\/p>","pubDate":"Tue, 24 May 2022 15:25:00 -0700","guid":"tag:blog.stanleysolutionsnw.com,2022-05-24:\/making-progress-with-capstones.html","category":["Capstone","capstone","wildfire","university","research","students","biochar","agriculture"]},{"title":"Home Automation... 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