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.
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 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 Making an USB Ethernet adapter work [SR9700] Figuring out hardware solutions to software problems
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.
Electronics Sensors and PCB design Designing electronics is neat. This is a look into designing my own ESP8266 based sensor board.
Electronics Reverse engineering the BMD camera HDMI control Reverse engineering the BMD HDMI camera control protocol by splicing a logic analyzer in an HDMI cable.
Phones Making a backcover extension for the PinePhone Trying to connect a thermal camera to the backcover of a PinePhone using the pogo pins.
Electronics E-paper status display My progress in using an E-paper display over USB to display data feeds.
Electronics Harley Benton (Thomann) Power Attenuator test and teardown Thomann just released their own amp attenuator. Let's measure it and take it apart.
Electronics Modding a Behringer VT911 A few weeks ago I replaced my Line6 Podxt live multieffect pedal with a guitar amp, cabinet and 2 pedals. The amp is a Kustom Defender 5H head and I use a Kustom 1x12 cab with it.
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