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.
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
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.
Megapixels Adding hardware to libmegapixels Let's dive a bit deeper in the config files and how to make them and more importantly, how to sustain this.
Linux Making an USB Ethernet adapter work [SR9700] Figuring out hardware solutions to software problems
Photography Expensive cameras are actually better Yeah the title sounds incredibly obvious. But how much better are high end DSLR cameras actually than an entry level model?
Electronics Can't get blinky on the BL602 Let's see if I can get blinky running on the PINE64 PineCone 3 years after it's release.
OpenSwitcher Reverse engineering the BMD camera HDMI control, part 2 Looking again at the HDMI control protocol for Blackmagic Design cameras.
Phones Mobile Linux camera pt6 The last Linux Mobile photography post I've written is a bit more than a year ago. In the meantime I've updated a few things.
Electronics Sensors and PCB design Designing electronics is neat. This is a look into designing my own ESP8266 based sensor board.
Photography Taking a good picture of a PCB Taking a picture of a PCB is easy, taking a professionally looking one is a bit harder. So lets overengineer this
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