Notepad of a tinker, maker, hacker or whatever you call it :)
I had to move my previous Wireguard VPN + Pi-hole ad blocker to another server, but this time I was not able to expose Pi-hole DNS port (53) to the host machine. It was also better to have Wireguard VPN inside a Docker container... so I did! As a reminder, Wireguard is a stateless and...
Read MoreI recently did a proof of concept on shutters automation by hacking the remote control: the idea is to wire the ESP in parallel of the remote control buttons. I did it on a Bubendorff 41677 remote control but it should work with a lot of other remote controls. After poking with a multi-meter...
Read MoreI have a Rika pellet stove which is great and full of electronics but unable to warn me when the tank is going low. As I already have my own low power wireless devices and home automation tools I just added a distance sensor and design some enclosures. Sensor selection IR sensor Cheap usual...
Read MoreI was looking to use InteractiveHtmlBom plugin for KiCad but unfortunately Debian maintainers did not set KICAD_SCRIPTING option in official package. After few failing attempts I even tested official flatpak package but it is an old version (currently 4.x) and scripting was not enabled too. So I dug further until it actually...
Read MoreThere is lot of pages stating that the Thinkpad T440p fingerprint sensor is not working well under Linux, but those are old and outdated. For me it worked out of the box once I figured out which packets to install: apt-get install libfprint fprintd libfprintd The package fprint-demo can also be installed to play...
Read MoreWireGuard is a new VPN software, which is described as It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPSec, while avoiding the massive headache and using state-of-the-art cryptography. Pi-hole is a black hole for Internet advertisements, ie a server blocking advertisements at DNS level. I have Pi-hole on my home network,...
Read MoreI spend a bit of time figuring out how to associate ".stl" extensions with Slic3r. Gnome wrote a good documentation but it is not obvious to find. I do not use the package manager for that because I use up to date AppImage. The resume is: Create /usr/share/mime/packages/slic3r....
Read MoreI am currently working with BLE beacons -only iBeacons for now- with Espressif's esp-idf libraries. The aims it to use the ESP32 as a gateway to published detected beacons to a MQTT broker. It was surprisingly easy and I will write something about that when the code will be more polished. By the way,...
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