Martijn Braam

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...

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.

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

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

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.

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

Building my own replacement for my InfluxDB and Prometheus setups

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

Making the pictures from Megapixels look a bit less vintage

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

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

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

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.

Let's dive a bit deeper in the config files and how to make them and more importantly, how to sustain this.

A look into the developments

Hacking together bits of electronics to route audio

Can SQL injections be avoided in a neater way?

Yeah the title sounds incredibly obvious. But how much better are high end DSLR cameras actually than an entry level model?

A look at Flatpak madness

Let's see if I can get blinky running on the PINE64 PineCone 3 years after it's release.