#weekendproject — Public Fediverse posts

New to me CPU ... what on Earth would compel me to buy a used Haswell chip? I'll tell you what.

For about 3.5 years now I've been running Opnsense on a used I3-4160 Dell SFF PC that I bought for like $30 shipped. It's worked great. Except when the heat is on or it's hot outside. Then it's noisy AF.

Hoping that replacing the 54W chip with a 35W chip will make a difference. And some fresh thermal paste won't hurt either.

#weekendproject #pchardware #computer #tech #technology

Happy new year! Anyone running a #GhostBlog (version 6) #selfhosted with #ActivityPub enabled? That was my latest #weekendproject. Unfortunately, the ActivityPub part is giving me quite a bit of trouble right now. It sort of works, but it’s pretty rough and/or #buggy. For example, I can’t delete messages/posts that I postet to the Fediverse. Has anyone gathered some #experience with this?

Fediverse handle: @logbook
URL: https://captainhomebyte.de

Thanks for sharing!

Ah yes, because who doesn't want to spend their weekend parsing ELF headers and translating memory access while pretending they understand #Armv7 CPU emulation? 🤓 By the end of this 8,336-word epic, you'll be the life of the party with your newfound ability to forward syscalls and handle exception exits. 🎉 #Goals
https://xnacly.me/posts/2025/building-a-minimal-viable-armv7-emulator/ #ELFheaders #emulation #syscall #handling #techenthusiast #weekendproject #HackerNews #ngated

Improving my test bench for future projects, I wrote a small PyQt5 GUI to control my Siglent SDG2042X from a remote Ubuntu desktop.

It handles basic waveform setup, sweeps, bursts, presets (so you can adjust at the generator and than load down for later), ARB upload/download (not fully tested yet), and SCPI commands, also screenshots.

I’m more of a hardware guy than a coder (for sure there will be some bugs), so feedback are welcome. Fork if you like.

--
Blog:
https://togo-lab.io/?p=130

Gitea with script:
https://gitea.togo-lab.io/tgohle/0003-SDG2042X-PyQt-GUI-for-Linux

#ToGoLab #Siglent #SDG2042X #PyQt5 #Testbench #OpenSource #python #weekendProject #diy_electronics #DIY

📧➡️📂 Oh, look! Now you can turn your endless sea of unread promotional emails into a neat #SQLite #database. Because who wouldn't want to spend their weekend wrestling with SQL queries to find that Groupon from 2012 instead of just using the search bar? 🙄#TechGenius
https://github.com/marcboeker/gmail-to-sqlite #TechNews #EmailManagement #SQLQueries #WeekendProject #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, look, another thrilling blog post about creating your own offline PKI system with 3 #YubiKeys and a computer that can barely run Tetris! 😂 Because nothing screams "fun weekend project" like locking yourself in an air-gapped bunker just to feel marginally more secure while the rest of us enjoy the cloud, amirite? ☁️🔒
https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2025-offline-pki-yubikeys #offlinePKI #security #humor #weekendproject #airgapped #HackerNews #ngated

#weekendProject
I’ve been insulating a room in my garage where all my projects are (e.g solar system and mastodon server). In the past it got a little damp and I’ve got a grand idea to have a dehumidifier at some point. First I thought I better measure the humidity and temperature- went to #ebay and got a super cheap little meter for ~£3 - but why get 1 when you can get 2 and try and hack it up.
So time to go digging…
#electronics #embedded #hygrometer #dataSensing
1/

My #WeekendProject

Northern Hemisphere vs Southern Hemisphere

PS My Time = Central European Time (CET) 🇪🇺

#Rugby #Knockout #RWC2023

Got Fireflies? Try Talking To Them With a Green LED - [ChrisMentrek] shares a design for a simple green LED signal light intended for ex... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/06/got-fireflies-try-talking-to-them-with-a-green-led/ #weekendproject #fireflies #ledhacks #blinking #flashing #patterns #science #firefly #led

I’m having fun with this #WeekendProject for a #Mastodon #StarterKit.

It’s exactly what I was hoping to achieve, and I’m the first guinea pig.

My goal is to create base templates for multiple frameworks, removing initial barriers around auth and API call configuration.

These are often hurdles for beginners interested in Mastodon development (like me), and providing that initial scaffolding pushes past those complexities and into building exciting new ideas for the community. 🥰