Erik Szewczyk, Author at FreeLearner.how

Technology, science, building things and experiencing the world. What more could anyone ask for? FreeLearner.how founder and doer of many things

Why my GPUs beat your ASICs at crypto mining

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

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)

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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Fixing broken solar panel glass with a silicone encapsulant

October 10, 2017 by Erik Szewczyk

Fixing broken solar panel glass with a silicone encapsulant I had a new solar panel propped up against a tree and it got knocked down by the wind and shattered (PSA, don’t do this). The panel was still giving good current, however…

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Environmental monitoring on the cheap with the ESP8266 (temperature, humidity, etc.)

September 24, 2017 by Erik Szewczyk

Curious about logging temperature, humidity, etc. or the ESP8266 microcontroller platform? Looking to come up with your own environmental monitoring platform? In this article I share some of the fun projects I’ve created to do just this. Best of all it’s cheap…

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Witnessing the 2017 Eclipse in the Malheur National Forest (near John Day) Oregon

August 22, 2017 by Erik Szewczyk

Watch the video here: I hope you enjoyed the video. This was an amazing life experience, and while the video turned out reasonably well it doesn’t reflect but 1/10th of the awesomeness of the experience. It was so amazing that without any…

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