Yes, I too am in IT. Was working for a commercial property developer. I have also been running the "Engineering Station" or "Rocket Range" for the C...

@will Or he would try to make it better by tacking on a lawn mower, wheelbarrow, duct tape, and God knows what else...

I would keep it "dumb"/simple. Get a foot switch from a sewing machine. These are designed for many cycles, and the abuse a foot gives. And it shou...

Welcome, fellow Tarheel!

Are you trying to "build an air quality sensor," or to use an existing one (e.g. "Adafruit PMSA003I Air Quality Breakout")--and make the data availabl...

@blackghost I think I understand your intent. Seems quite "green" and responsible for power usage. However again, my concern is that the reader wil...

Wow. Here in the U.S., we have very strict rules about how many inches from the door a light switch must be, etc... The other thing I'd be cu...

Check the Building Codes. This (removing control of electricity) may not be allowed.

@silverstar The first "programming" I did was keying about six pages of assembly instructions into an Apple II. Then....watched it produce a compila...

Back in college in the 1990s, I lead a team of three on a senior project--a non-academic student information database. It ran Pascal with embedded SQ...

@tigs62 Then just never try reading LISP! Ugh...

What do you all think? Seems immune to if someone mistakenly brought out a crossover cable. Although doing that used up the extra/spare wires. A...

Nope. It gets optimized by the compiler to the same opcodes.

@madmisha When I am setting up and tearing down, no problems. I will intimately know the cabling & connectors' limitations. But given that I'm ...

@madmisha We're thinking the same about shielded cables. Cheap insurance against outside noise. And Cat6A STP has good EMI protections inside of th...