Two weeks ago, I received an e-mail telling me I had been accepted in the Framework Mainboard Developer Program. Framework has a very interesting approach to sustainability in electronics that reminds me of Fairphone, though I don't want to compare them directly. I worked at Fairphone for more than three…
I had a dream. Rather, I had a nightmare last night. It went as dreams go, mixing reality and fantasy. When I awoke, completely stressed out for the day before morning light could stream through my window, I decided I would not let the dream happen. Here is the gist.…
About ten days ago, I received a scary e-mail from the NAS (it has a name by the way, it's called cactus): my boot pool was degraded but still operational. The SSD I added not so long ago to mirror the USB drive actually started to fail.…
Over the course of the week-end, I (finally) upgraded from FreeNAS 11.3 to TrueNAS Core 12.0. One of the most notable things with the new version is that it is strongly discouraged to use a USB stick as boot drive. Since my NAS has an internal USB port…
I setup my Network Attached Storage (NAS) back in 2014 after getting a nice discount on a HP MicroServer of the previous generation. I added some more ECC RAM, fitted four hard drives, installed FreeNAS, and then happily used it to offload my poor computers of all the media and…
This post belongs to the Atreus build series, which was introduced by Onward with the Atreus keyboard. The advantage of building your own mechanical keyboard is that you get to choose the software to run on it. The problem is that you need to place the controller in "flashing mode"…
This post belongs to the Atreus build series, which was introduced by Onward with the Atreus keyboard. The breakout board will give a USB-C socket to the Atreus, much nicer to use than an old —though still omnipresent— micro-B socket. The breakout board I am using (from Adafruit) takes care…
This post belongs to the Atreus build series, which was introduced by Onward with the Atreus keyboard. Last night I started soldering the rows and columns. The rows are connected by diodes (to avoid a bounce back effect from residual current on key up) while the columns are simply wired…