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25 articlesSee 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 ...

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...
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...

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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
solar-weather-station-with-supercapacitors
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 ...
Adding Gemini and AI to Your GPU-Powered Laptop
A complete guide to connecting Google
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.

Dumping firmware and resetting fuses of STM32 using OPENOCD and JTAG
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Comparing Performance between Bluepill logic analyzer and NanoDLA Logic Analyzer.
References https://github.com/thanks4opensource/buck50...

Turning My Roller Gate into a Smart WiFi-Controlled System
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Running Deepseek R1 on my Laptop CPU (No GPU).
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Learning Ansible
Week 1 - 27/12/2024 [](/images/ansible-logo.jpg) Ansible is an open-source automation tool used for configuration ma...

Learning NodeJS and moving into DENO
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HardCore DevOps Revision
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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 and Above Using pip.conf Setting Up PIP for Python 3+ on Ubuntu 24 and Above Using pip.conf [![](/images/pip...
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...
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...
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...
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...
My confusing ,yet satisfying review of Ubuntu Desktop
_My journey of migrating to Ubuntu Desktop from elementaryOS [![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7KTITeOQ8O5hJDWrPM42FkqZVBEAQxo5JsVi37s...
Python and my journey
Python : My daily course javascript Day 1: Computational Thinking Computational thinking 1. Decomposition: Breaking down bigger problem to smaller ones...
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