Technical notes
Experiences, technical notes and experiments around open source, Linux, homelab, automation, hardware, hacking and maker projects.
Moving a site away from WordPress is easy to describe as a content conversion. In practice, that was only the beginning. I migrated two personal blogs, BlueMind and PiMyRetro, while changing …
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Until recently, my heating control system relied on a combination of old “dumb” electric heaters, Oregon temperature sensors, and Chacon on/off modules. Everything communicated …
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I’ve been using XMG laptops since 2020. For me, they offer one of the best value-for-money options if you want an elegant machine that works equally well for productivity and gaming. After …
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For several years, I relied on a wall-mounted Android tablet running Fully Kiosk Browser as a control panel for my home automation system (OpenHAB). When my last tablet finally died, I …
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After building out my cloud@home environment (detailed in my previous article), I decided to take the next logical step: replacing my OpenHABian setup with a fully GitOps-driven “as code” …
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My home lab was 7 years old and it was time to replace it. It was based on five Odroid HC1 nodes and 1 Odroid N1 (which never reached the mass production stage, Hardkernel sent it to me as a …
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I wanted to add some power consumption measures to my Openhab installation. But as for now, the majority of my installation relies on 433 Mhz devices and I did not found RFlink compatible …
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A few years ago, I had the idea of building an Amiga like chassis with some arm based computer and a real mechanical keyboard. I even bought everything needed to build it ! The idea was to …
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A few years ago, I bought among other things a 8" 4:3 LCD display for a new retro portable console project. However I abandoned this project as more and more good commercial solutions …
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As a fan of retrogaming, I’m using an old CRT TV to play with my retro consoles (Famicom, Megadrive, etc.). My TV is a not so old Grundig ST 72-864 (board reference : CUC2033). It is a …
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