April 2015 - Herdware.com

Join me at VCF East Friday April 17th

I will be doing a workshop this Friday at VCF East on computer architecture. Each year is bigger and better and this is the second year for three days of computer related festivities. Worth the drive if you are in the NJ, NY, PA area!

Thermocouple Amplifiers

I just did a video for Hackaday about Thermocouple Amplifiers, a quickie video feature Linear Technology in this case. The spares from the build for the video are available at https://www.herdware.com/shop/analog/thermocouple-amplifier/ along with a Type K Thermocouple. From the Hackaday video Thermocouple is a terrific way to measure temperature. The effects of temperature change on dissimilar metals

ESXi 5.0 5.1 5.5 Install stuck at loading module megaraid_sas

Ran into the dreaded “Install stuck at loading module megaraid_sas” issue. Changing to EFI or different versions of 5 did not work on my old but serviceable Dell 1950.