Posts tagged with 'hardware'
Using own OpenWRT router with Vodafone/Cityfibre
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 →
Don't throw away. Fix.
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. read more →
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 →
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 →
Adding voltage and current measurements to the sunpowered Pi
Remember my sunpowered Pi installation on the balcony ? The only indication I had, since recently, on how well the system is doing was an LED blinking red when battery was low. Not really helpful in making predictions or making measurements over the ... read more →
Sunpowered server setup
Remember my NAS ? It turned out great ! Very reliable storage, I had a disk failure once and haven't noticed for some time because all the files were just there. Hardware enhanced virtualization is another great stuff. I ended up migrating all my of ... read more →
New laptop
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 →