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Proper buspirate & uISP SPI flash adapters
It took me a very looong time get my lazy ass down to making this simple yet so needed thing. Every damned time I had to upgrade a router or unbrick something with SPI flash I told myself: time to get...
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rf24boot v0.2 released!
It was a busy month, but I finally managed to find a minute and update the rf24boot. Yes, the very thing that can push firmware updates via nRF24L01 wireless modules. Along is a regular bunch of...
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flashrom benchmark: BusPirate vs uISP
As you might remember, buspirate is a pic24-based device with a pic24 + ft232 for usb connectivity. pic24 runs (according to datasheet) at clocks up to 32Mhz. The price tag for my bpv3 hardware was...
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Hotgluegunning, 80lvl: HC-05 adaptor
Yeah, you might remember my old one, well it sucked. So I got hold of a bunch of pogo-pins and being too lazy to lay out a proper board made this monstrosity with a bunch of wires and a hot glue gun....
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Dlink DNS-327L: How you should NOT make a NAS
TL;DR; Ported Debian on Dlink DNS-327L with fresh kernel, mybranch’s here‘е. Inside stock firmware there lies madness! Now, the long read: You might have noticed that my dull engineering blog has been...
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Just an esp8266 dev board
ESP8266 took a hell of a time to arrive, so meanwhile I got a dev board ready. Nothing really too fancy inside – just a PL2303HX, a few LEDs, buttons and connectors… But I couldn’t resist making some...
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ESP8266 and PL2303HX-gpio adventures.
As you might have seen, I’ve made a few projects with PL2303HX, namely that little nifty esp8266 developer board. I plan to dive in esp8266 firmware development soon and my goal will be a nifty mysql...
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Since I’ve got some homebrew development boards ready, it’s time to get hacking. I stocked on coffee and gave esp8266 SDK a deep dive this weekend. The code is really weird, lots of things are unknown,...
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Debian @ Dlink DNS-327L: The guide
If you’re following my blog, you might’ve read my post about Dlink’s substandard engineering, and how I’ve got debian running on the damn thing. Well, since that time I’ve made a few improvements,...
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How do I ‘cost-optimize’ nRF24L01P ?
I recently got a nice batch of nrf24l01 modules dirt cheap (~55 cent per module). If anybody wondered if you could cost-optimize these modules even more… Well, turns out you can. They won’t be quite...
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