Ultranet adventures part 2: Stagebox!
Continuing the Ultranet adventure by building a fully functional 8-channel stagebox.
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Ultranet adventures part 1: Working prototype!
Deep-diving into Ultranet and re-implementing both a receiver and transmitter on FPGA.
Building an open-source bi-directional SDI to Fiber converter
Creating a DIY open-source and budget-friendly bidirectional 3G-SDI to fiber converter using readily available components and determination.
AoDNS - The monstrosity that now exists
AoDNS, is a monumental monstrosity specifically designed to spread chaos among network engineers by streaming live audio via DNS queries
Changing my blogging platform
For a while now, I used ghost for my blog platform. A while ago, I decided that enough was enought I was going to migrate to another platform. Hugo was selected and lots of development occured.
Mix this wave: DIY audio mixer
Making a very basic 3CH audio mixer with amplified output
Monitoring CO2 levels, the DIY way
Building a DIY CO2 and PM2.5 sensor to measure the air quality in my office and improve my home-maker life.
Adding an mSATA port to a Lenovo M73
Adding a mSATA port to the motherboard of a Lenovo ThinkCenter M73 to enable me to add High Availability to my homelab.
Microphone tally lights
Creating a microphone holder with tally lights for a live show and integrating it to the MIDAS M32 mixing console
Sending notifications on user login
Writing a small bash script to send a notification in my telegram monitoring channel each time a user logs in to one of my server
Homelab Single-Sign On?
Installing an SSO solution in my homelab with Authelia to facilitate the user management and reduce the number of logins required.
Running an ACME in my homelab
Running the open-source step-ca ACME server to provision SSL certificates in my homelab
Automating my Outlook calendars
Making my life easier by creating a simple python script to generate Outlook meetings from an Excel spreadsheet.
Adding a C14 connector to my Mikrotik switch
Recently, I bought some used mikrotik CRS326-24G-2S+RM These switches are remarkable 1g switches for the price, but they have one flaw: they use an external power adapter So, I decided to add an IEC C14 connector to it.
Rendering SVG with KiCad scripting API
The adventure of rendering SVGs with KiCad pcbnew python api. What I wanted to do was pretty simple, at least I thought, I wanted to replicate the comportment of the "Export → SVG" button in KiCad.
Too cold? Let's predict things!
Writing a NodeRed flow to determine when my pool will be at an acceptable temperature using the sun and maths
Keeping it cool, automating a window
Let's make a completely overkill project to automate my skylight and integrate it with HomeAssistant.
Let's talk about WireGuard
Let's see what WireGuard, the fastest and newest VPN protocol, can offer us.
TurtleAuth 2.1: A design for everyday use
Making a updated and sturdier second version of TurtleAuth, my stm32 based GNUK and U2F tokens
Fixing a dev worst nightmare
Stack Overflow having some kind of maintenance is scary. In this post, I'm solving this once and for all by hosting a local copy of the answers.
TrueNAS - SMB LDAP Auth
The very long story on how I setup LDAP authentication for my samba shares with ACLs on TrueNAS
Wireless audio part 2 - Working prototype
Second version of my CC85XX wireless audio transceiver prototype
Using docker to contain projects
How I converted my own NodeJS s3 bucket caching system to a simple docker container for easy deployment of servers / scripts
Bridging the gap between old and new, garage door gets a Wi-Fi controller
Building a stable and secure garage door controller that interfaces to the original controller
Getting started with HID and the Pi Pico
Using the Raspberry Pi Pico and circuit python with a joystick to control the computer mouse
Wireless audio part 1 - 1st prototype
Making the first prototype of my wireless audio system using Ti's CC85XX series chips
Stop now!! (Freebox parental api)
Using the freebox API to control a profile internet access with a big red button to toggle it (Oh and also rgb)
Dirt cheap DIY USB Camera
A little after that every blog was popping with the uvc-gadget script to turn your pi4/pi0 into a high quality USB camera. [...] And so at 2am it was decided I was making a webcam
Auto mute while in meetings
Making my door automatically mute me when it gets open so that I don't disturb my classes
HexClock: Redesigning time
Iterating over a pre-existing design to make it better and have cool clock
CM118B: Adding usb audio to my projects
Needed USB audio input for my audio matrix. There wasn't an evaluation kit available, so I made one
Creating a custom component for home assistant
So after building a reliable enough software for my open433 board, I wanted to make add my project as a platform for home assistant.
Hacking the hardware store fan
A while ago someone bought me a little table fan. In summer that's the best thing ever however it lacks a main requirement to be on my desk: It doesn't have any kind of connectivity.
Let's turn lights on with the computer the 433Mhz way
A while ago I started using home assistant on a pi and bought some inexpensive 433Mhz ac wireless switches. However, after one month of intense use the Raspberry Pi didn't have enough power, so I bought a cheap computer of eBay.
Let's make a DIY gpg usb key
Some of you may know that you can use yubikey's as a gpg smart card for message encryption / ssh login however starting at $45 for a compatible one I didn't really like that, so I searched a bit to make a DIY one.
Experimenting with the OpenGraph protocol
Some time ago I remembered about the opengraph protocol
Terminal TV - Watching videos on the terminal
Playing video in the terminal using ANSI codes
LinkyLink - Connecting myself to the French energy meter
Making a custom board to connect an esp8266 to the french energy meter
Bone conduction glasses
I had a really boring class in high school and short story I made bone conduction glasses
TI-NSpire SMS Shield
Connecting my Ti-Nspire to the world of sms