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 …
2.5GbE PCIe NIC mod board
Monday, October 23, 2023 in Hacks
What is it? This tiny mod board can be used to add 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet to devices that have PCIe available internally. It can for example be used to replace an existing 1 Gigabit PCIe NIC in embedded devices, upgrading them to 2.5 GbE connectivity. …
Typewriter Teletype
Sunday, August 07, 2022 in Hacks
What is it? Samsung / Commodore SQ-1000 electronic typewriters can be modified to work as a teletype terminal. They use a simple 8bit microcontroller to scan the keyboard matrix and do the printing itself. The keyboard was originally attached using …
ATAPI Audio-CD player
Monday, July 26, 2021 in Hacks
What is it? ATAPIMega is a hardware project which allows regular (P)ATA CD/DVD drives to be used as a standalone Audio-CD player. The PCB accepts (regulated!) 12V DC power via a 5.5mm/2.1mm barrel jack and outputs 12V/5V for the CD drive. The …
TCP/IP for Casio calculators
Monday, July 12, 2021 in Hacks
What is it? fxIP is a port of uIP 1.0 to Casio fx-9750/fx-9860 calculators. It requires calculators with a SuperH SH4a CPU, needs quite a bit of SRAM. fxIP connects to IP networks via SLIP encapsulation over the 3-pin 2.5mm 5V serial port/UART. …
Programmable logic in PHP
Sunday, November 08, 2020 in Hacks
What is it? Parallel ROMs (OTP-ROMs, EPROMs, EEPROMs, NOR flash, etc.) can be used as simple, programmable logic devices. They can be programmed to hold a lookup-table / bit stream, which will emulate logic functions (like 74-series logic) by …
GPIO PATA/IDE on Linux
Saturday, August 08, 2020 in Hacks
What is it? pata-gpio is a Linux kernel driver for GPIO bitbanged PATA (also known as ATA/ATAPI or IDE). Pin configuration can be set via device tree, the regular ATA framework is used. IDE Primary/Secondary device support is implemented. In use …