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See Through Walls with a $9 Microcontroller

WiFi signals pass through walls. When a person moves — or even breathes — those signals scatter differently. What if you could read that scattering pattern and ...

Mar 24, 20266 min read
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From Docker Compose to Kubernetes: Migrating a Real Homelab Stack

From Docker Compose to Kubernetes: Migrating a Real Homelab Stack

A practical account of migrating 15+ self-hosted services to K3s — including AMD GPU passthrough, WiFi camera routing, custom monitoring, and a feudal Japan das...

Mar 21, 20266 min read
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Revamping my Sensor Dashboard

New Release Introducing SensorDash 2.0 A complete architectural overhaul designed for speed, scalability, and a superior user experience. [View Live Demo l...

Nov 20, 20252 min read
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Installing a Custom Ubuntu WSL Distribution from an ISO

Installing a Custom Ubuntu WSL Distribution from an ISO

Installing a Custom Ubuntu WSL Distribution from an ISO A comprehensive guide to extracting, packaging, and repairing a custom WSL image from scratch. Introduct...

Aug 28, 20257 min read
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Rockchip Hardware Acceleration Guide

Rockchip Hardware Acceleration Guide

Rockchip Hardware Acceleration & Automated Conversion Last updated: A complete guide to enabling hardware acceleration and setting up an automated conversion se...

Aug 6, 20253 min read
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My Weather Station Project Journey

My Weather Station Project Journey

You might remember my previous project where I built a miniature weather station . In that setup, I displayed live sensor readings using an MQTT broker app on A...

May 24, 20254 min read
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USING NPU In newer Intel PC

Today I am writing this blog to address a topic on  This SHould prgress to the Eye detection  [How to develop and build your first AI PC app on Intel...

May 16, 20251 min read
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Solar Weather Station with Supercapacitors

Solar Weather Station with Supercapacitors

Powering the Future: Integrating a Miniature Weather Station with Solar and Supercapacitors Published on: May 10, 2025 In our ongoing exploration of innovative ...

May 11, 20259 min read
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In our ongoing exploration of innovative solutions for sustainability, I've embarked on a project to integrate a miniature weather station with solar power. To ...

May 11, 20259 min read
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Adding Gemini and AI to Your GPU-Powered Laptop

A complete guide to connecting Google

May 8, 20254 min read
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Breathing New Life: Building a Home Server from Old Laptops
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Breathing New Life: Building a Home Server from Old Laptops

Turn old laptops into a powerful DIY home server running Docker containers including ArchiveBox, Portainer, Plex, and Home Assistant. A complete guide to repurposing e-waste into a useful home lab.

Apr 22, 20256 min read
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Dumping firmware and resetting fuses of STM32 using OPENOCD and JTAG
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Dumping firmware and resetting fuses of STM32 using OPENOCD and JTAG

css Dumping STM32F105 Firmware on Ubuntu using ST-LINK /\ Custom styles \ / body { font-family: 'Poppins', 'Inter', sans-serif; /\ Use Poppins and Inter...

Apr 15, 202510 min read
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Comparing Performance between Bluepill logic analyzer and NanoDLA Logic Analyzer.

References  https://github.com/thanks4opensource/buck50...

Apr 15, 20251 min read
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Turning My Roller Gate into a Smart WiFi-Controlled System
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Turning My Roller Gate into a Smart WiFi-Controlled System

javascript DIY WiFi Roller Gate Controller with ESP32-C3 /\ Apply Inter font globally \ / body { font-family: 'Inter', sans-serif; } /\ Style for code blo...

Mar 14, 20258 min read
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Running Deepseek R1 on my Laptop CPU (No GPU).
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Running Deepseek R1 on my Laptop CPU (No GPU).

css Running DeepSeek on a CPU with Ollama and Docker /\ Apply Inter font globally \ / body { font-family: 'Inter', sans-serif; } /\ Style for code blocks...

Jan 28, 20257 min read
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Learning Ansible
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Learning Ansible

Week 1 - 27/12/2024 [![](/images/ansible-logo.jpg)](/images/ansible-logo.jpg)  Ansible is an open-source automation tool used for configuration ma...

Dec 27, 20243 min read
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Learning NodeJS and moving into DENO
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Learning NodeJS and moving into DENO

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Dec 27, 20244 min read
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HardCore DevOps Revision

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Dec 27, 20241 min read
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Setting Up Pip for Python 3 on Ubuntu 24.04 and Above .

Setting Up Pip for Python 3 on Ubuntu 24.04 and Above .

Setting Up PIP for Python 3+ on Ubuntu 24 and Above Using pip.conf Setting Up PIP for Python 3+ on Ubuntu 24 and Above Using pip.conf [![](/images/pip...

Dec 24, 20242 min read
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Let's talk about RS485

RS-485 Communication Let's talk about RS-485 What is RS485? RS485 is a standard for serial communication that allows multiple devices to communicate...

May 30, 20244 min read
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SLIR Projects - Small Projects with big theory
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SLIR Projects - Small Projects with big theory

SLIR - Sri Lanka Institute of Robotics - Advanced Robotics Course Projects  > [![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYfuNRk_e4sUJjA8q...

Oct 12, 20231 min read
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WEEK 2 - Intern Diary

Day 1 - Vega Innovation Learning  in depth - C language  Heap memory, stack memory Identified a faulty ESP32 using a microscope.  Using the UCTX Serial an...

Oct 17, 20221 min read
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WEEK 1 - Intern Diary

WEEK 1 - Intern Diary

DAY 1 - Vega Innovation Learned the serial communication types other than RS-232,SPI and I2C RS-485 : Faster, than its predecessor RS232 and c...

Oct 10, 20224 min read
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 My confusing ,yet satisfying review of Ubuntu Desktop

My confusing ,yet satisfying review of Ubuntu Desktop

_My journey of migrating to Ubuntu Desktop from elementaryOS [![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7KTITeOQ8O5hJDWrPM42FkqZVBEAQxo5JsVi37s...

Jul 6, 20223 min read
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Python and my journey

Python : My daily course javascript Day 1: Computational Thinking Computational thinking 1. Decomposition: Breaking down bigger problem to smaller ones...

Mar 13, 20223 min read
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