Router overclocking
Sunday, March 24, 2024 in Hacks
Real gaming router This is part 2 of the “Real gaming router” series of blog posts. Read Part 1 / Real gaming router first. Why? If you’ve seen part 1 of the “Real gaming router”, you know that the game performance in …
Real gaming router
Sunday, March 03, 2024 in Hacks
Update, 18th March 2024 Read Part 2 / Router overclocking for an update on performance. What is it? A TP-Link wireless router, with an external AMD Radeon GPU connected via PCIe, running Debian Linux and playing games: What makes this router so …
NVMe BIOS Option ROM
Tuesday, October 31, 2023 in Computing
What is it? The NVMe BIOS Option ROM is a heavily modified version of iPXE, which can be integrated into a computers BIOS (or provided via a PCI card, USB flash drive, SD card, etc.). It allows x86 computers to boot from NVMe devices attached via …
Blinkekatze
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 in Art
Wild Blinkekatzen in their natural habitat What is it? Blinkekatzen are a replacement PCB for commercially available silicone LED lights. The lights usually contain a battery and some RGB LEDs in a cat shaped housing. Blinkekatzen expand on this …
ThinkPad T41/T43 USB-C
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 in USB-C mods
What is it? USB-C PD trigger board with integrated high-power Step-Down converter to 16V. This board will negotiate 20V, 5A (100W) against a USB-C PD power supply and convert the bus voltage into 16V. This can be used to power various laptops like …
HomeSwitch 4
Friday, July 28, 2023 in Network
What is it? HomeSwitch-4 is a small, low-cost, open hardware, USB-C powered 4-port Gigabit ethernet switch, running OpenWRT. It’s VLAN-capable and can handle simple VPN and routing applications (CPU connected via 100 MBit/s). It uses a cheap …
DC UPS (Lithium)
Saturday, July 01, 2023 in Network
What is it? DC UPS is a lithium battery-powered uninterruptible power supply, which can provide backup power to devices like routers, switches, modems, single board computers, etc. In contrast to commercially available UPSes, it uses off-the-shelf …
OLED nametag
Saturday, June 03, 2023 in Art
Features Bright, sunlight readable OLED display Infinity constrast ratio Support for GIF animations WLAN AP support Web interface for management of animations Automatic brightness adjustment 8h+ runtime Links Hardware: KiCAD design files Firmware: …
Thermal camera macro
Monday, May 29, 2023 in Tools
What is it? 3D-printable adapter, which fits into commercial thermal cameras and adds a 18mm ZnSe CO2 laser lens to the optical path. This greatly improves the imaging quality on small electronics / SMD parts. Before / After Sample photos of PCB …
LPT printer emulator
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 in Retrocomputing
Warning: While this project does work and has been tested against a number of devices, the firmware is very quick & dirty with hardcoded parameters and missing error handling. Use in production environments is discouraged. What is it? Old …