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…
This post belongs to the Atreus build series, which was introduced by Onward with the Atreus keyboard. Today I glued the switches on the base plate (the layer that holds them, commonly made of metal to avoid cave-in when typing energetically). It turned out to be more cumbersome than anticipated.…
This post begins the Atreus build series, which was introduced by Onward with the Atreus keyboard. I received the laser-cut sheet of plywood yesterday. This time I will let pictures speak for themselves. Laser-cut plywood sheet of the individual Atreus casing elements.Individual casing elements, lightly sanded and coated with…
In the last few months, on a quest to find a better keyboard, I've become totally engrossed with the Atreus keyboard, a 42-key mechanical keyboard you can build yourself. Two weeks ago, I placed an order for the Keyboard.io Atreus, which features two more keys and will be manufactured…
A Python context manager caters for the boilerplate wrapping a resource to offer safety and convenient (re-)use. Upgrading a context manager to be reentrant is a simple and efficient way to allow a scope to be shared, without changing the context semantics.…