Make Time Labs

I have an upcoming project that is unfortunately very difficult to implement in Windows. It is however fairly simple in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). I do not want to affect my current WSL Linux Distro (Ubuntu 22.04) so I…

There are times when the dataset we are provided is not conducive to the questions being asked about this data. This is especially true when dealing with time series data. All to often a dataset contains date ranges. i.e. a start…

I was roaming through MicroCenter earlier this week hoping beyond hope that I might stumble across a new Raspberry Pi without having to pay the ungodly scalpers prices on Amazon and Ebay. No luck laying my hands on a Pi 4, or a Pi…

Recently I've started playing around with the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi again. It's been quite some time since I have had the opportunity to do so. Most of my projects in the last few years have revolved around running various…

The fam got me a Pi 400 for Christmas. I have been intrigued by this new Raspberry device because I don't understand it. My experience with Raspberry Pi's in the past has been using them for what they are, Single-board Computers s…

I love using Power BI. Over the years I have used a plethora of no-code data visualization tools. Tableau, Spotfire, Thoughtspot, Plot.ly, Easy Chart Maker, the list goes on and on. In the last few years, I keep coming back to Pow…

My wife had her first printing issue with her Raspberry Pi powered wireless Rollo thermal printer today. It was only printing the last 1/4 inch of her shipping labels. It turned out to be an issue with her phone as killing the Gma…

I've just recently begun using Ghost Blog for this website. Coming from a python background I initially experimented with Django and Flask . I ran through multiple iterations using these two frameworks and had quite a bi…

I received a few questions from multiple followers regarding a working list of all traded stocks. This is generally followed by an explanation that they want to apply machine-learning or artificial intelligence to predict stock pr…

The Why Several years back I was bitten by the stock trading bug. 99.9% of the time I just invest various index funds. I do however maintain a Robinhood account to play around with trying to pick individual stock winners. The thre…

Being a spoiled Windows guy since Windows 3.1, I have always maintained a severe dislike for modifying and configuring text files on desktop-less Linux systems. I cringe at the thought of using nano or vi to make changes to a file…

My wife currently uses a Rollo Thermal Printer for shipping labels. We have been extremely happy with this printer however she prefers to print these shipping labels from her android phone. For the last couple of years, we have be…

Items you will need A Raspberry Pi (anything except the Pi Zero) An 8gb sd card An sd card reader Raspberry Pi Imager Imaging the SD Card Our first setup will be to install the Raspberry Pi Imager. You can retrieve the imager from…

Data sets from different sources are rarely uniform. This means in order to merge or combine data sets from different sources we have to do data cleanup. One of the common U.S. data source issues I encounter is State Name vs State…

A meme floating around these days takes a swing at the existence of the electoral college stating "land doesn't vote, people do". While I don't subscribe to either side of that particular argument, the meme does a great…