Dunkelstern Blog
Being efficient without a mouse Every once in a while I am on the customizing trip and want to mix up my computing experience. Perhaps it sounds weird after just repairing the Surface Laptop to now blog about customizing Linux to the max, but I am constantly switching operating systems and interfaces. The best devices I own are the Mac Mini M1 and my trusty Lenovo Yoga Slim 7. One running MacOS…
Why Microsoft oh why? So it turns out I was really stupid to attest Microsoft any technical prowess in 2020. I bought a Surface Laptop 3 (AMD) in 2020 as it seemed to be a really well built Laptop that could rival the construction of a MacBook. I did not want to buy a Mac this time around as it was not clear if you would be able to run Linux on the Apple Silicon Macs ever. In hindsight it turns…
What My partner @chaotin@corteximplant.com was gifted a Ducky One 3 Matcha mechanical keyboard. I converted that thing to a Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040) chip with QMK firmware. Why The firmware of the Ducky keyboard did not compensate for bouncing keys correctly and it seems Ducky abandoned updating the firmware for that device. So the keyboard was basically unusable because all the time key-presses…
What is LittleSpeaker The idea is to build a small mono speaker that is repairable, hackable and can do some more advanced things than just being a Bluetooth speaker. Design of the enclosure is by Jennifer Leis, Firmware and electronics by me. You can find all design files and the firmware in the LittleSpeaker Github Repository This blog entry is basically a modified Readme from that repository.…