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Hardware Stockholm Syndrome
2025-10-05
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Testing two 18 TB white label SATA hard drives from datablocks.dev
It has been 0 days since the last change to my home server.
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A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad
A quick cli script to tell you if your usb-c cable is bad
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Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks
About 5 months ago I made the decision to start self hosting my own S3 . I was working on AppGoblin’s SDK tracking of the top 100k Android and iOS apps so was wanting a lot of space, but for cheap.
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Alibaba cloud FPGA: the $200 Kintex UltraScale+
Using a decommissioned Alibaba cloud accelerator card as an FPGA dev board
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I turned the Lego Game Boy into a working Game Boy
Sharing my thoughts and current projects.
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Intro to BirdNET-Pi: Eavesdropping on my feathered friends
Stick microphone out window, catch chorps, feel joy.
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IP over Lasers
Mike Kohn's music, software, and electronics projects.
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ML on Apple ][+
Success! There is machine learning happening on my Apple ][+.
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Not all OCuLink eGPU docks are created equal
I recently tried using the Minisforum DEG1 GPU Dock with a Raspberry Pi 500+, using an M.2 to OCuLink adapter, and this chenyang SFF-8611 Cable. After figuring out there's a power button on the DEG1 (which needs to be turned on), and after fiddling around with the switches on the PCB (hidden under the large metal…
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Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel
Better 32-bit performance was worth trading some 64-bit performance to get
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Testing the Raspberry Pi 500+'s new mechanical keyboard
Instead of a traditional review of a new Pi product, I thought I'd split things up on my blog, and write two separate posts; this one about the Pi 500+'s new mechanical keyboard, and a separate post about hacking in an eGPU on the Pi 500+, for a massive uplift in gaming performance and local LLMs. The Raspberry Pi…
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Meshtastic 64 – A meshtastic radio for the Commodore 64
For this project I designed and built a meshtastic radio that plugs directly into the Commodore 64. My goal was to release this at the VCF M...
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I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
A personal comparison of battery life between my MacBook M1 Pro and Framework 13
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I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster
I ordered a set of 10 Compute Blades in April 2023 (two years ago), and they just arrived a few weeks ago. In that time Raspberry Pi upgraded the CM4 to a CM5, so I ordered a set of 10 16GB CM5 Lite modules for my blade cluster. That should give me 160 GB of total RAM to play with. This was the biggest Pi cluster I've…
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Shipping 100 hardware units in under eight weeks
Someone once told me hardware is hard...
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Meta RayBan AR glasses shows Lumus waveguide structures in leaked video
Introduction Just a short note today. I’m in the middle of my trip, which will end in Eindhoven next week (see notice at the end of this article), when I heard that Meta had leaked a video on…
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Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)
Last week, I went on an adventure through the electromagnetic spectrum!
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Hosting a website on a disposable vape
Someone's trash is another person's web server.
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Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link
I recently bought a cheap Tapo indoor camera to see what my dog gets up to when I am out of the house.
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CubeSats are fascinating learning tools for space
These are CubeSats. Satellites that are going to space—or at least, the ones I have here are prototypes. But these have one thing in common: they're all powered by either a Raspberry Pi, or a microcontroller. There are already Pis in space, like on Mark Rober's SatGus, on GASPACS, and the Astro Pis on the Space…
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How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?
I have a modest set of solar panels on an entirely ordinary house in suburban London. On average they generate about 3,800kWh per year. We also use about 3,800kWh of electricity each year. Obviously, we can't use all the power produced over summer and we need to buy power in winter. So here's my question: How big a…
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Refurb Weekend: Silicon Graphics Indigo² Impact 10000
It's one of my periodic downsizing cycles, which means checking the hardware inventory (and, intermittently, discovering things that were no...
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Weird CPU architectures, the MOV only CPU (2020)
I like CPU architectures, especially weird, interesting and unusual ones. For example, the Intel iAPX 432 is still something I would love to play around with. Recently, I realized that a working CPU can be made with just a simple Move instruction. For this to work, everything needs to be memory mapped. The ALU…
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Racintosh Plus – Rackmount Mac Plus
I own a Macintosh Plus from 1986, I found it in the mid 2000's on my college campus on a free-to-a-good-home shelf (Mad Marc's shelf in the chemistry building) in great shape and with its mouse, keyboard, and an HD-20 external hard disk drive. That silly computer has been on the journey with me ever since, leaving…
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Building my childhood dream PC
In 1993, I was 14 and already passionate about computers [1] . That year my mother managed to buy a PC for the household. That was quite an effort for a single mother. My brother Aurelien and I spent every waking hour on this machine, staying up all night on weekends.
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Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster
The Sound Blaster