turbodb
Our tent is old. That's a good thing, I think. We've had it since we started this whole adventure thing, now almost exactly a decade ago. It's performed well during that time, and though I've often lusted after something GFC-ish, I can't say that the tent has ever let us down in any way that a...
ClassicHasClass
Some of our recent (and some upcoming) projects are oriented to systems with serial consoles, but it's been getting pretty old dragging around old CRT terminals or tying up Mac laptops with a serial port. I'd like something that's self-contained, a little more portable and a bit less heavy. I'm...
0ut3r Space
Everyone in IT has lots of flash drives. Each one has something different on it. But they’re all important and useful. Sometimes only once a year, but still useful. I decided to tidy up my USB drives and put everything in one place. I thought it would be difficult, but it turns out there is a very...
Michael
Recently I grabbed my trusted old Avnet / Digilent ZedBoard to test how well the current Xilinx tools work with this now a decade old platform. However, I was facing a weird issue: The serial output by the Zynq PS was only received via USB on my computer when I was sending characters via UART from...
Michael
I recently got my hands on a USB microphone, namely the Samson Meteor Mic, a large diaphragm electret condenser microphone that not only looks cute but also has overall good reviews online. However, when testing the microphone I was rather disappointed by the annoying background noise that is...
Willy Tarreau
Goal A while ago I purchased a Linksys WRT1900ACS-v2 router to replace my aging 15-years firewall (still running kernel 2.4 on an old VIA Eden board!). This device is pretty nice, it's fully supported by Linux mainline, it offers multi-gigabit connectivity with a real CPU (Marvell Armada 385), has...