Playing with the GD32VF103 on the longan nano When I heard that RiscV processors were easy to find from Chris Gammel on the Amp Hour, I bought a bunch from taobao and designed a board to work with them. Unfortunately they
Flashing my X230 to Coreboot I wanted to upgrade the wifi card of my laptop. Only thing is that Lenovo has a whitelist of acceptable cards. You can patch this out, or go further and install coreboot, an
huginn Using Huginn to find new real estate listings I'm looking to buy a house. I've got some requirements, a garage, more than one bedroom, price, etc. Recently I set up Huginn, a system that automates online tasks. For this task, I
Vacuum SMD Pickup tool I assemble a SMD PCBs at times (1-4/month). One of my latest was LED eyelashes. Picking up the LEDs was tedious with tweezers, so I decided to take a page from Greg
I "finished" a project! One of my ongoing projects is a pair of RGB LED eyelashes. I designed a string of LEDs on a flex PCB, and a controller. The LEDs are individually addressable SK6812-1515 1.5mm
New server! I've been away from my blog for a long time, lots of things happened. Supercon was freaking amazing, got a new job, started building wearables, have a bunch of new projects, did a
24 Hours Of Lemons Failures I brought the Volvo out to Louden this weekend. Suffice it to say, it did not go well. We ran test day all day. No problems. We started running the next day, and
volvo Fixing a Volvo S60 ECU Before the 24 Hours of Lemons race, I got the car running and it would not run right. I pulled up Torque, and I was not getting engine temperature, boost pressure/vacuum, as
GD32V RISC-V in STM32 Blue Pill I wanted to throw a RISC-V MCU into my motorcycle dashboard, so I figured the easiest thing to use would be a GD32V STM32 compatible RISC-V microcontroller, and worst case I could use
Motorcycle dashboard I'm building up my motorcyle to make it more useful, and less old and janky. I designed and printed a dashboard mount to mount all the things. Only thing is that the holes
Lemons car bushing upgrade I have a 2001 Volvo S60 that I run for Lemons, the endurance race for 500$ cars. We've run it a few times with varying success, so it's time to focus on suspension.
RGB Lasers! Another project I've been working on has been an RGB laser projector. I found a cheap RGB laser Christmas decoration, and extracted the lasers from it. They were surprisingly powerful. I then found
Bog Pond Kayaking My partner and I took the inflatable kayak to a local pond near me. We found a bunch of lily pads, carnivorous plants and lovely flowers! I love the way the light reflects
Motorcycle power system I have a 1983 XL600R. The stock electrical system has 3 coils in the stator, 1 for ignition, 1 for AC lighting and the last for all the rest of the lights, directionals,
Motorcycle fork mount update Took the bike out for a ride, the fork mounts almost immediately broke. I re printed them in Polycarbonate reinforced with carbon fiber. We'll see if this holds. Good news is that they
Motorcycle Fork Light Bar Mount I received bolts and nuts from the McMaster fairy today, so naturally I tried to test-fit my fork mount onto the bike. It was /almost/ a resounding success. Firstly, I didn't clearance my
Motorcycle Carb Air Screw Thread Repair #RecapOn a previous episode of how I screw things up and then fix them, I drilled out the carburetor of my 1983 Honda XL600R to remove a stubborn air screw that had the
xl600r Motorcycle headlight mount I've finally got my printer printing well for PETG, all it took was me dropping my glad bed and putting blue tape on the aluminum bed. The surface finish still isn't great, but
Casting update We actually managed to melt metal! We needed an adjustable propane regulator, the el cheapo from Home Depot did not do the job. With a 0-30 PSI regulator from Amazon, it worked great.
Motorcycle Air Screw I checked the thread size on the air screw that I screwed up the threads on, I believe it's a .75 Tpmm M6, could also be an M5, I didn't have my calipers
Updating the blog to Ghost 2 I have this blog running on a scaleway ARM box somewhere in Europe. I had it before on a dedicated ARM box from Scaleway as an app image, basically they do everything, you
Bees, Motorcycle, Propane Foundry I've been terrible about posting, but I actually want to start being regular. Had a big day after work today, my propane burner was done drying, and I needed to move some bee
Electric fence electronics1 Hello! It's been a long time since I updated this. But here we go again. This year I decided I wanted to do bees. Where I live, bees have bears to fear. Yes,
Keyboard PCB Design One of my current projects is a keyboard. I liked the idea behind the mitosis keyboard, but I wanted a number row and wanted the wireless to use BLE and not a proprietary
