While upgrading my campervan to a new power system (LiFePo + new charger), I also wanted to replace the existing ECTIVE battery monitor with something that can be consumed by the already existing VenusOS setup, which allows to remotely control and read out the system status through Victron's VRM. I discovered that the BMV-712 uses [...]
A while ago, a friend showed me scriptable and that he had a widget on the home screen that shows the current gym usage. I thought that is pretty clever and wanted that too, but unfortunately it didn't exist for my gym. However, thanks to covid, the studio chain I am using also displays the [...]
This is an issue that I debugged at our local makerspace. I couldn't find much information when I searched the internet on what could be causing this problem, so I thought I would post it once I figured it out. The problem was caused by the focus lens not sitting tight in the focus lens [...]
Keine Gewähr für Angaben! Achtung: Arbeiten an 230V sind lebensgefährlich! Die Pins des Microcontrollers sind direkt mit der Netzspannung verbunden, sobald die Lampe am Strom hängt! Die LEDVANCE SMART+ Serie beinhaltet einen Tuya controller wb3s - dieser kann leider nicht direkt mit Tasmota geflasht werden. Es gibt allerdings eine spannende Alternative: das Flashen von Open [...]
Vor kurzem bekam ich über Home of Making einen Arcade III Wechselautomat in die Finger. Der Automat war augenscheinlich in gutem Zustand, jedoch spruckte er die Scheine nach dem lesen einfach wieder aus. Es sollte sich herausstellen, dass der Acceptor (Geldscheinleser) nur die alten Euro-Scheine liest; bis zu diesem Punkt hatte ich das Gerät aber [...]
We were lucky enough to get tickets to view the launch of Artemis I from the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. It is just around 12km from launch site 39B. Surprisingly, KSC opened at 8pm and the attractions were all staffed and open, making the wait time until launch enjoyable.
Navigate to the folder that contains the mac shadow copy files and open a cmd (e.g. by typing "cmd" into the path of the explorer window). Now simply run del /s /q ._* Execution will take a couple of seconds depending on the number of subfolders and files.