Electronics, computer science & more
This year Wifibroadcast has its 10 year anniversary! Time to gather what has happened since then. This spring I was getting motivated to try out again FPV. So I dug out my almost 20 year old quadcopter with the good old Wifibroadcast and gave it a shot. It did not end well. Reason for it [ ]
8GB of music data on an 8cm optical disc? WOOW! At least in the year 2000 you would have said wow . Today it is nothing but a joke, considering the memory sizes of even cheap SD cards. But for some strange reason I still wanted to have such an impressive device. So I built it:
This post shows a setup that is able to run a backup server for daily backups at close to zero cost both in terms of initial costs as well as running costs. Backups are an annoying necessity of today s life. Without them, loosing all your data in an instant is a realistic scenario. [ ]
The Nokia communicator was quite expensive back when it came out and unfortunately, the devices still are today (since they became collectables). Therefore, I built my own device, based on a Nokia 5110 brickphone: Inside of the original battery I placed a custom designed micro Bluetooth keyboard: The front cover has been turned as well [ ]
This post describes a simple DIY battery replacement that powers an oscilloscope multimeter from USB-C instead of batteries. Recently, I bought an oscilloscope multimeter which is nice to have, but really eats away the batteries. Therefore, I built a replacement battery that powers the device from USB-C: The Openscad design can be found here:…
This post presents an easy to use Youtube Music player that plays music from small token objects The player presented in this post plays music based on Youtube URLs that are encoded as a QR tag and attached to tag objects . If these objects are placed on top of the box, the music will [ ]
TLDR: Bought a Samsung S21 5G, it broke 3 times within warranty time, Samsung gave up repairing it and leaves me with a broken 700€ phone. Last year my old phone broke and I replaced it with the Samsung top model because I expected it to give me the least trouble. The opposite was the [ ]
Have you ever been annoyed by having to charge your headphones? There is a cure for that 🙂
Ever wanted to take digital pictures and videos with your old analog camera? How about live video streaming over WiFi? You can 🙂