It’s been a long while since I wrote something interesting in this blog. Well, since I’m no copywriter, have no ads and don’t use any dumbass neural nets and write everything by hand – it does take a while. And today I got an interesting thing to write about. I got my hands on a […]
Category: misc
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Optimizing ESP8266/ESPHOME for battery power (and making an ice bath thermometer as well)
It’s been a long while I wanted to check for how long can an esp8266 with esphome last on a battery supply. Yet I didn’t have a reason to get it done. Time to fix that and add yet another battery optimization manual for ESP8266 to the internets. And what’s the big reason? The story […]
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Distributing python apps for windows (and dealing with the pain)
Even though I’m mostly a linux user, I sometimes have to deal with windows (and, heck, well even mac sometimes). And not only to fire up steam and relax playing some game or wandering in VR worlds (unfortunately). So this time I had to deal with distributing a python app that should be available for […]
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Getting rid of telemarketing, Pt. 1
Frequent calls from telemarketers, spam and espionage – these are the main reasons I try to use the loyalty cards and other stuff, and if I have to – tend to have a long chat about how much I do NOT want to receive any calls/messages or ‘super special deals’. However, it doesn’t stop many […]
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Linux gaming with P106-100
This post contains a small guide on how to play games and run other graphics payloads using a dirt-cheap NVIDIA P106-100 (Which is a mining-only version of NVIDIA GTX1060 that you can get for less than 100$) in Linux in (optionally) virtualized environment, making it a nearly perfect solution for a headless gaming server. Yep, […]
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New Year’s Led-o-Blinker v. 2.0
Another year, another version of the led-o-blinker. This time I had to go wired to fit into the 40 minute deadline. Happy holidays!
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LineageOS + Magisk adventures
I use LineageOS and Magisk root (A magic tool that helps Android Pay and root access coexist). With Lineage you can receive updates every week on Monday (for my Oneplus 5T) and so far they’ve been really stable. All was good until the last update of May bricked my cellphone. As it turned out Lineage […]
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rf24boot: A universal over-the-air bootloader for all those uCs
Apparently I’ve come up to a point, when I want to do firmware upgrades for my home automation ‘over-the-air’. Since I’m using nRF24L01 dongles, I decided to write a bootloader for that. While my pet antares project is slowly progressing towards the 0.2-rc2 release (honestly, really slowly), I’ve added the nice and shiny RF24 library […]
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Solidoodle & Arch linux
Okay, it’s been a while since I got my nice & shiny 3d printer from solidoodle. A few people have asked, so there go a few tips, to make the software running on Arch Linux. I’ll be posting a detailed review sometime later, since I’m kind of buried under the ongoing projects.
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Creating .libs for kicad/eeschema semiautomatically
Well, everyone has to eventually make one. Since we have a cool online utility from C. Rohrbacher http://kicad.rohrbacher.net/quicklib.php this is quite simple. Just fill in all the pins, orient them and you are ready to go… But if there are over 200 pins, this is getting tiresome. When I was making a lib for at91rm9200 […]