BrixIT Blog

BodgeOS pt.5

It is once again the last weeks of the year and I felt like messing with BodgeOS again to see if I can get my laptop in a state where I can use it at FOSDEM.

Linux

Using a Blackmagic Design camera as wildlife camera

I've noticed a squirrel occasionally coming through the garden and I wanted to capture it.

Linux

Don't pick weird subnets for embedded networks, use VRFs

Don't pick random subnets to avoid IP address conflicts on foreign networks, use VRFs!

Building a browser game based on KiCad

Building a brower game inspired by drawing a PCB in KiCad

Megapixels

Megapixels 2.0: Small fixes and GTK breakage

There's steady progress towards Megapixels 2.0 Alpha 2 with a lot of small improvements, but there's also a massive roadblock introduced by the GTK developers...

Electronics

After-FOSDEM videobox updates

It's a bit more than a month after FOSDEM now. The few bits of hardware I designed for the video capture boxes for the event held up great. I realized I never wrote a blog post about it so here it is.

BodgeOS

BodgeOS pt.4: A working browser

Getting Firefox to build and work in BodgeOS took quite a bit of effort.. and patience..

Linux

BodgeOS pt.3: Graphical desktop

Just before the end of the year I managed to get BodgeOS to a graphical desktop environment.

Megapixels

Megapixels 2.0 alpha release

Finally after a lot of work I felt it was a good idea to close off this year by tagging the first actual release of the Megapixels 2.0 codebase.

Linux

BodgeOS pt.2: Running on real hardware

Continuing on my December puzzle of building a toy Linux distribution from scratch. This time getting it to boot up on an actual computer instead of just a container.

Linux

Conjuring a Linux distribution out of thin air

A few days ago I got a new laptop and once again had to make a choice of what distribution to install

Linux

Building a timeseries database for fun

Building my own replacement for my InfluxDB and Prometheus setups

Linux

Making a Linux-managed network switch

Sometimes the custom 5-port gigabit switch _is_ the solution.

Electronics

Building a DSMR reading board

I've had a janky setup to store data from my "smart" energy meter for a while now. But now I have made a neat finished product from it.

Electronics

Automatic case design for KiCad

Generating OpenSCAD cases from KiCad PCB files with a bit of Python code and magic.

Megapixels

Megapixels contributions

The last two weeks in Megapixels: Contributors

Electronics

Moving to a RTOS on the RP2040

As projects get more complicated the tooling has to improve. Outgrowing the arduino-ide is easy on the Pi Pico with the excelent pico-sdk but what if things get even more complicated...

Linux

Bootstrapping Alpine Linux without root

sudo chroot without sudo... and mostly without the chroot

Electronics

Digital audio mixer pt.2

A FOSS digital audio mixer, now with 100% more custom hardware.

Megapixels

Fixing the Megapixels sensor linearization

Making the pictures from Megapixels look a bit less vintage

Megapixels

The dilemma of tagging library releases

The dilemma of releasing a half-working library early to promote contributions.

Megapixels

Megapixels 2.0: DNG loading and Autowhitebalance

So this is the (looks at notes) 9th! blog post about the progress in Megapixels development. In this episode: White-balance and SEGFAULTs!

Linux

The MNT keyboard reviewed

MNT Research is an open hardware manufacturer based in Germany. I'll have a look at their open standalone keyboard.

Linux

Looking closer at the syslog

I did a deep dive in Linux logging protocols for writing logbookd. Here are some of the results.

Megapixels

Megapixels 2.0: DNG exporting

One of the things that is very broken in Megapixels 2.0 is actually saving pictures, so here I will embark on a side-quest to make a new DNG exporting library that moves the code out of Megapixels.