Erik Szewczyk, Author at FreeLearner.how

Driving Historic Route 66

On June 20, 2018 by Erik Szewczyk

To my FreeLearning Friends: I wanted to share this video taken while we were driving down one of the best preserved sections of historic Route 66 in Arizona between Topock and Oatman, AZ at dusk. Turn off the autonomous driving mode and…

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How to Plant Potatoes

On May 19, 2018 by Erik Szewczyk

One of my favorite activities with the kids is gardening. Moreover from a freedom perspective I think everyone should know how to garden/grow food and understand where it comes from (why would you eat something you don’t understand?). In the video above…

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Update on Fixing Broken Solar Panel Glass

On March 19, 2018 by Erik Szewczyk

An update on my broken solar panel glass video after 5 months and a winter outdoors. Still going strong, no discoloration or water intrusion so I’m quite pleased with this fix! See the earlier article where I performed the fix here: https://www.freelearner.how/2017/10/10/fixing-broken-solar-panel-glass/ Also…

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Why my GPUs beat your ASICs at crypto mining

On January 15, 2018 by Erik Szewczyk

There is a constant question for everyone doing cryptocurrency mining – what is the most profitable hardware to mine? Here we explore that question and try to quantify why today (January 13, 2018) we believe GPU mining is the best for crypto…

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Cryptocurrency Mining on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti with NiceHash

On January 3, 2018 by Erik Szewczyk

No in depth analysis this month, just playing around with my new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and cryptocurrency mining with NiceHash. For this test the card was in my home server out in the garage which is running Windows server 2016…

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Solar Powered Raspberry Pi based Wireless Security Camera System (DiY)

On December 16, 2017 by Erik Szewczyk

Why buy an expensive security camera when you can build your own? I was looking for a new security camera to put on my driveway that would capture and store video off-site and work wirelessly from a location about 100 feet (~25…

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