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CNC router arrives
After 2 months of waiting - my CNC router arrives. 8 weeks lead time they said - 7 weeks and 4 days it was ! Who are they ? TanieCNC people (company no longer exists: tanie-cnc.pl) - CheapCNC in Polish. Although it may look like they don't know how t ... read more →
Tools - PCB holder
I thought it would be cool to share with you the tools I find surprisingly useful. Behold the first in the series: the PCB holder ! I cannot overstate how much is that of a difference from the 'third hand'-type of holders. The grip is very firm but w ... read more →
Backing up and restoring whole block devices
SD cards are not really a reliable storage, especially when used constantly e.g. while sitting in always powered-on Raspberry Pi. Because of that I've recently needed to perform lots of backup/restore operations ;) I wrote this script for backing up: ... read more →
Standing desk
It was some time since the last photo-story so, please accept these pictures of my standing desk. On the actual desk, there is a laptop stand serving a role of a keyboard and mouse rest. Laptop itself is flipped on its back, motherboard attached to t ... read more →
GUI Vagrant box
Recently I've started working on changing my default development workflow. I'm evaluating vagrant as a main env manager, and then docker for extra speed. In short, my vagrant up boots up new dev box and then couple of docker containers. What I've fou ... read more →
Tor talk
I gave a talk this Monday, an important one I think. The one from the kind of spreading knowledge on the safe internet usage to people not necessarily of the tech background. This was my first one given to a such audience and to add to it all, it wa ... read more →
Running Eagle on Ubuntu 14.10 64bit
Eagle is still the first choice when it comes to Open Hardware electronics design. That's a bit unfortunate because the software itself is proprietary. Sometimes you need to run it though. For example to migrate projects over to non-proprietary softw ... read more →
Poor man's secrets storage
I'm a bit cautious when it comes to storing my passwords and other secrets. I do not use any web or desktop applications to do this for me. How do I remember those passphrases then ? I have a central file server, accessible via a tunnel. I store ther ... read more →
Compiling git 2.0 on cygwin
I had some troubles compiling git 2.0 under cygwin. I present you with a very dirty hack to do so. Proper patch will probably follow. Did I mention that the hack is dirty and will make your hands burn if you're gonna type it in ? git clone https://gi ... read more →
Mount your filament spool on the wall
I find it useful to hang as much stuff as possible on the walls, instead of using shelf/floor/desk space for that. Here is just a quick hack I did to allow filament spools to be mounted securely to a wall. It turns out that if you cut off the bent pa ... read more →