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NVME is so much more complicated than I expected

Thoughts on the unreleased Tangara audio player

Repair adventure: A single white LED causing stuck keys on a RN988 keyboard

Desk improvements: 3d printed webcam ball socket, lightbar friction mounts and lightbar brightness controller

Project: RJtoner, a multiway network cable toner/tracer (plus open source STC micro stuff)

Moving emails accounts to a new host, imapcopy with actual encryption

Many indoor air quality sensor products are a scam (temperature, humidity, pressure, CO2, TVOC)

Adventures using and repairing an X131e laptop from 2011

Why I recommend CGI instead of web frameworks

Amplifiers, horse plague, SPICE and home etching

Reply: The software of my dreams (3D to 3D capture and world reconstruction)

Diodes part 4: Glowing ionic diodes recreated & my ionic thesis research

Meta: site comments, Minisleep 1.20 released

Project: Small self-powered speaker

Project: Tool demagnetiser

Prototyping using copper tape and PCB land pads

Fake TL074 opamps - adventures in decapping

Small Thien baffle dust separator

Time safety is more important than memory safety

Meta: New Minisleep, site rebased

Software release: Minisleep

Repair: Allied Telesis AT-8000GS 24port gigabit switches

Long range wifi with helical antennas

Seamonkey's gradual showdown

Meta: Blog comment systems

Game release: The Echidna Menace

UI Gripes: Season 1

Making a bench PSU out of a cheap buck/boost module off the web

Diodes part 3: a working diode steering circuit

Mounting computers on wooden boards

Project: Wooden synchronous clock

Diodes part 2: Homemade aluminium diodes

Splitting apart lipo packs

Inside HRC fuses: cheap vs brand-name

Cutting open red COB Leds

Repair: DIADEMA coffee machine

Simpler PCB etching/making techniques for simpler boards

Experimental homemade aluminium and silicone PCBs

Meta: Quiet in the blogs

Selectable turns AM loop antenna

Archives: Robots and lab projects pre-2016

Diodes part 1: Homemade copper diodes

Moving away from Arch Linux Part 2: Looking at alternative distros

February element14 haul

Meta: Site fixes and various reflections

Repair: busted laptop hinge mounting point

State of my ARM Chromebook

Moving away from Arch Linux Part 1: Systemd

Rebuilding Tankbot

Meta: Grand site unveiling