Jason Kincl

my personal blog

  • RTL-SDR and BBQ

    When I first got started with BBQ smoking I needed some temperature probes that morning so I raced down to the ACE hardware near my house and picked up a Big Green Egg Dual-Probe Wireless Thermometer. This project is my attempt to turn that simple thermometer output into a graph of temp over time.

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  • Using Google Cloud Build To Build Linux Desktop Disk Images

    For the SCUSA project, we need to ship bootable Linux desktop images to all of the sites that they can use to easily convert a public computer lab into a contest environment. We have varied what we have shipped over the years but the last few we have opted for a LiveCD-based environment since it is minimally impacting to an existing computer lab. Read more about SCUSA disk images.

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  • SCUSA: Contest Disk Images

    For a number of years I have helped to run the ACM-ICPC South Central USA regional programming competition as the tech chair. As such one of my responsibilities is building the OS that the contestants use on the day of the competition.

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