After creating the first few temperature sensors the PCB has been updated. It’s smaller now. Soldering went smoothly. The fact that the PCBs came in groups of 6 made applying the solder paste much faster. After soldering the PCBs did not look very nice. But after measuring all were as expected and the question is […]

A little bit up the river from our house is the Dom Luís I bridge. Even though Eiffel’s design was rejected his former partner Théophile_Seyrig was awarded with the project. So the similarity is not purely accidential.

Is it a fisherman’s net or art or as my Ninjago-fluent son suggests: spinjitzu

Before I proceed to manufacture the PCBs for the home automation I decided to invest in a solder plate and try a very small project: Temperature sensors that consists of a DS18B20 1-wire temperature sensor and a 2-pin SMD push connector. First step was to make sure that the solder plate is actually grounded properly. […]

Upgraded to Fedora 35

Upgraded to Fedora 33.

This month’s come together will be held on 2020-03-11, 8pm not at our regular pub (see our mailing list for details).

I finally got around to looking into why my rsync automation fails with my new Lineage OS 17.1 device. The old instructions worked like charm. Sshd will start, but the shell user will receive a permission denied after successful authentication. It turns out that sshd is unhappy with the file ownership or modes for /data. […]

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Upgraded to Fedora 31.

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