Hardware

Project updates from the current consecutive three-month period, with info on the current status of my projects and next steps. You might find this interesting in case you’re using any of my open source tools.

I’ve been rocking Linux on the desktop for quite some time now and decided to provide some insights into what it’s like on a day-to-day basis, as well as cover some of the questions people had about my setup specifically.

“Behind the scenes” photography from building the HHKB-layout KARA (ICED) by RAMA.

After more than 10 years on macOS I made the switch back to Linux on my desktop – but not how I originally intended. The PC laptop market is bonkers and I decided to not play along.

I left the Linux desktop nearly 10 years ago. Now I’m trying to go back in order to escape from a closed-source environment, by investigating on possible hardware options and trying out first steps on cheap alternatives.

With barely any ecosystem around Khadas’ products, I decided to fullfil the need for a stand with integrated cooling for the VIM3 on my own.

I’m travelling. A lot. And I work with data. With a lot of data. A lot of private data. My own data, but also data from clients. Highly confidential data.

Let’s make the Raspberry Pi 4 finally keep its cool and look that way!

At the end of the day all that remains is basically a tiny SBC with great specs nobody can actually make use of yet.

How to wire two Arduino MCUs as master/slave via SPI and transfer useful data (e.g. sensor readings >1 Byte) from the slave to the master.