I dislike the new Ubuntu installer, subiquity.

Apparently I wanted to do something that was not supported by this new installer (yes, I know there’s an encrypted LVM variant but I didn’t want LVM). And even when I installed the minimal possible …

There was a Hackaday article in February titled “The RISC-V ESP32-C3 will be your new ESP8266”. Well, after being frustrated with the small memory on an ESP8266 board just recently, I was eager to try this new part. So I ordered some modules …

The use-case might be a little specific but I’ll describe it nonetheless, hoping it may help someone. A while ago I read Practical Forensic Imaging by Bruce Nikkel and tried out the sfsimage script that he presented therein.

The idea is as simple as …

This is just a simple post about some artwork I did as a present recently. I wanted to try my hand at freeforming solder-art, so I got some brass rods and tried to form a foxes head.

After finishing my own VFD clock project a while ago, I now bought a ready-made module from Noritake Itron because I wanted to take a look how they do it – especially the filament supply.

These modules usually sell for somewhere above 50€. But here I …

Aktuell verbreitet sich das neuartige Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) rasant auf der gesamten Welt mit teils verheerenden Folgen. Dies soll aber kein Beitrag über das Virus an sich sein, sondern eine Anleitung wie ihr euch auch in Zeiten, in denen Mundschutz …

Vacuum flourescent displays are a beautiful piece of retro technology. Noritake Itron and a few others still build them as dot-matrix or full graphic displays. But the technology dates back to the 70’s and you can find some surplus units available on …

To keep things short: I’ve had an Anet A8 3D printer for a while now and wanted to flash an updated version of its Marlin firmware. For some reason however, the bootloader was broken. So I couldn’t flash it with avrdude by simply using a USB …