For something very different this time, a quick recipe for a very specific situation. One of the very few fiber-to-the-home solutions in the UK is through Cityfibre, sold as Vodafone "Gigafast" packages where I live. As with other ISPs they ... read more →

Try fixing your things. It's already broken - no need to sweat. You might learn something. Level 2 - push for things to be easily fixable. It's good for you. It's good for the planet. {{< gallery dir="galleries/dont-throw-away-fix" /> ... read more →

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 [CheapCNC in Polish :]. Although it may look like they don't know how to make websites AND their name does not ... read more →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Hey, remember my search for the new laptop ? It's finally over ! I found that Clevo, Taiwanese custom laptop manufacturer, has recently added 13'3 FullHD laptop base to their offerings - W230ST. And to my surprise - there is a Polish importer which a ... read more →

For a long time I've wandered the voids of the intertubes in search for the parts for my NAS/backup/home server solution. Online backup solutions are fine to some extent, however, someone else than you then is going through that cat picture collectio ... read more →

It was December, 3D printing fever struck me. Here is the first day of me building ReprapPro Mendel printer. {{< gallery dir="galleries/assembling-reprap/1" />}} Second day of building. Fun fact: you can see the daylight come and go ; ... read more →