This week I’m refurbishing a 15+ yr old computer which was stalling on windows 10 and got abandoned. Currently making a huge backup to an Icy box (the self built variant of a wd passport or similar).
On wednesday, a friend comes over and we’re repasting the old i5. I might add some ram and a better but used cpu later which should give this thing another 10 yrs as a server. The mainboard is full of features and would accept a 4 core with 8 threads and 16 GBs of DDR3. Nothing to play recent games on but maaaaany docker containers will run on this baby! :)
Let me know what you’re doing to spit on consumerism and built-for-the-landfill-economy.
Reminder: I made a petition on change.org to make consumer electronics manufacturers open their devices after they stop supporting them. Please sign it, your support is needed.
DIYing electronics and self-hosting services that you’d otherwise need several hefty subscriptions for.
Same! Thanks for sharing. Feel free to check out my setup and share yours.
Whats your favorite electronics project so far and do you have any advice?
As far self-hosting, I keep run about 25 stacks off of docker compose files and back up all the containers daily. This setup makes it really easy to restore if ever needed. I only run a few performance essential things on bare metal like nginx and pihole.
I noticed you run a Minecraft server. May I interest you in this project. It’s a dockerized Minecraft server that turns off when nobody’s on and turns back on when someone attempts to join.
As for electronics I mainly just solder some IoT devices like a smart lamp. Currently I’m fighting with my room fan that I want to turn smart as I keep running into new problems. As it looks now, I’ll need to learn FreeRTOS, IR modulation, and the Zigbee protocol to get it all running.
Another pending project is designing a custom PCB for my Logitech G613 keyboard. It started typing double letters. At the same time it’s kind of the only keyboard design that I’d be fine with. Full size wireless mechanical keyboard with a macro pad. Wishful thinking would also be things like detachable numpad, ortholinear layout, detachable split layout, but oh well. This is the closest thing on the market that fulfills my requirements. Only issue is the Romer-G keycaps. I would much rather have hot-swappable MX switches. Therefore I’ll look into swapping the PCB out for something custom so I can keep the same chassis I like but replace all the switches and return to a keyboard without double strokes and better sound, too!