Homemade mini Visual Pinball system
It has been a long time since I wanted to build my own Visual Pinball cabinet. I finally took the time, but as I don’t have enough space for a “standard” sized pinball, I …
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RFLink-to-MQTT Gateway with ESP8266 and Arduino Mega
Some years ago, I built a custom shield for an arduino mega running Rflink. The purpose was to provide Rflink MQTT messages over ethernet. I recently built a new version which is more …
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Fanless pfSense Router for Gigabit WAN
I recentlly upgraded my internet connection from 100 megabits to 1 gigabit. With such a high bandwidth, I started to see the limits of my PFSense router, a PCEngine APU2. I live in Europe …
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GamOdroid C0 updated with fbdev retroarch
I recently finished the V3.0 of my custom retroarch build distribution for oddroid C1 : https://github.com/jit06/retroarch_fbdev_c1. Amongst other things, the are 2 main features that pushed …
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3d printed RC Hovercraft
The idea emerged from a fantastic Thingiverse project http://thingiverse.com/thing:2700850. I’m fan of RC hovercraft since my childhood, but it seems that we are too few in that case …
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Odrophile : update !
After several months of usage, I wanted to correct some problems and “polish” a little bit my homemade audiophile music tablet (see the build story here)… Hardware …
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DIY volumio driven audiophile DAC and CD player
The Raspberry pi has some very high quality DAC such as the Pecan Pi. But regarding integration, even if there are existing cases, I was missing a remote, some basic physical user interface …
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Odrophile : odroid C0 based audiophile tablet
The Odroid C0 is definitly one of my favourites DIY plateform : RTC, lipo support, emmc, fast cpu / gpu and low power consumption ! This time, I made an “audiophile” tablet with …
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Anycubic i3 mega : more rigid bed for cheap !
If you have an Anycubic I3 Mega for some months, you probably know the problem : the base plate that support the heated bed tends to bend, especially on the corners. This is probably due to …
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Odroid C1 fbdev Retroarch OS
Back in 2015, I did the GameOdroid C0, a portable gaming device based on Odroid C0. It was running X under debian, and to be honest I was not entirely satisfied of the software parts : bad …
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