#tinkering — Public Fediverse posts

Will it charge the AAA Eneloop battery?
These electronics are salvaged from two garden lights which were supposed to be waterproof and were not. I've merged two into one and replaced the 200 mAh cell with a 1.2 Ah one. Connected both solar panels in parallel to double the current.
It did charge the cell and lit the blue LED when I was carrying it to another room, so it does work!
#electronics #solar #DIY #tinkering

Today, PC DOS 7 was the first time I personally encountered floppy disks in the 1.840K XDF format. For a moment, I was really confused and couldn't handle these disks at all. They appeared broken or unreadable, no matter what I tried! Luckily, after a little tinkering, I finally managed to make it work... and beautifully!

(HxCFloppyEmulator for the win! 😎 )

#FloppyDisk #KryoFlux #IBM #XDF #IBMPC #PCDOS #DOS #Diskette #90s #Preservation #Retro #IT #EDV #Tinkering #Computer

I recently acquired a new Turris Omnia NG router from @turris to take advantage of my new 10 Gbit/s internet speed from my provider Init7. Now I was really curious about my actual speed ...

This led me to LibreSpeed (https://github.com/librespeed), an Open Source speed test tool which is working by default with PHP. Unfortunately the router isn't powerful to provide reasonable measurements because the chunk files to test the download speed are generated by PHP and openssl. This appeared to be a bottleneck.

So I was tinkering a little bit and created a NGINX backend for LibreSpeed which doesn't rely on PHP.

Now I have put together this in a GitHub comment: https://github.com/librespeed/speedtest/issues/375#issuecomment-3769211254

(I still rely on PHP to get the IP address and to store the measurements though, but this is lightweight enough for the router.)

Try it out yourself: https://speedtest.momou.ch

#speedtest #Internet #OpenSource #LibreSpeed #PHP #measure #tinkering #nginx #turris #omnia #Init7

👨‍🔧🔬✨ "Measure #EEG with Arduino" is the riveting tale of transforming your #Arduino into a mind-reading device with the finesse of a #DIY potato clock. Just slap on an ardEEG shield, sprinkle some scripts, and voilà—years of research distilled into a weekend project for the overconfident tinkerer. 🤖💡
https://www.instructables.com/Measure-EEG-With-ARduino/ #MindReading #WeekendProject #TechInnovation #Tinkering #HackerNews #ngated

🥳🎉 Congratulations, startup founders! Now you can spend hours #tinkering with an overcomplicated sales compensation #simulator 🤯 that promises to make you rethink your life choices. Because who doesn't love the thrill of adjusting endless sliders and settings just to pretend they understand how sales work? 💼📈
https://www.exec.com/sales-comp #startupfounders #salescompensation #lifechoices #salesstrategy #HackerNews #ngated

OH: “Gurken sind super, die halten ne ganze Performance. Von Möhren lieber die Finger lassen - oder nur frisch.” (Andreas Bischoff, @robotnet, https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/event/vegart-wie-klingt-eigentlich-gemse/)

#38C3 #Musik #MedienKunst #Art #Tinkering