{hacking,music,electronics,radio}
Here are the toots from my Mastodon account. If you’re into ham radio and technology this is a great inclusive server with an awesome mascot called Alex.
I hope everyone is keeping busy and entertained!
I posted a few links to some interesting radio things I found: https://hackerific.net/2020/04/15/radio-links-1-april-2020/
Things like this cool glowing mini antenna: https://circuitsalad.com/2020/02/13/simple-low-current-mini-whip-antenna/
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Here’s a fun Dockerfile:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16296753/can-you-run-gui-applications-in-a-docker-container
Running GUI apps in a container using xvfb + vnc 👌
→ View toot on mastodon.radioVirtual Machines for iOS: https://getutm.app/ this could be awesome if it gets off the ground.
iSH is already fun and useful https://ish.app/ but it’ll be good to see what’s possible on locked down apple hardware.
→ View toot on mastodon.radioHacking cheap GPS radios to make a long range mesh: https://www.meshtastic.org/
I hadn’t seen these ESP32 based GPS modules before: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000119152086.html
→ View toot on mastodon.radioThis cool projects adds USB-C to TS100 soldering irons (by replacing the PCB):
https://github.com/Jan–Henrik/Otter-Iron
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jan–Henrik/Otter-Iron/master/images/4.jpg
Looks cool.
→ View toot on mastodon.radioHahaha, the TLS 1.2 RFC was written by people from “RTFM, Inc.” https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5246.html
This powerpole PDU looks cool:
https://hackaday.io/project/170493-anderson-power-distribution
Very similar to the sotabeams version but there’s probably not much in the way of obvious variations to make.
→ View toot on mastodon.radioYay Sprat! I have a nice stack of radio magazine now, perfect for when I start to go stir crazy.
This book on SDR from Pragmatic Programmers looks like it might be good: https://pragprog.com/book/wdradio/explore-software-defined-radio fairly cheap while it’s in beta, and pragprog is a really good + DRM free publisher.
→ View toot on mastodon.radioAnother cool DIY radio blog: https://robs-blog.net
Makes me feel bad for my lack of activity recently!
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