Chris’ Miscellanea

Trying to clean up this code, so that it's usable without too much friction... I put up my slightly modified version of the usbled.c ker...

I got myself a Cardbus FireWire card, namely a DeLock 61114 . As it's always very hard to find the Chipset used for a particular card,...

So, I've wasted (again) too much time on the Toradex T20 I've written about earlier . It was collecting dust all of the time, but it...

Update 2015-02-15, see below. Update 2016-02-14, see even farther below. After replacing my old linux-PC based router with a Telco-suppli...

This is an update on the Webmail Notifier , a cheap chinese gadget that's nothing more than a RGB LED connected via USB. In this case, i...

There's a really common way to kill your firewire-devices , which is to forcefully plug in the 6-pin connector , carrying both supply po...

This adapter allows you to connect "normal" electret-type microphones to differential, phantom-powered inputs, like the ones to be...

Ok, so this is embarrassingly primitive, but so that I don't loose it ( again ), I put this small script on github. Maybe someone else h...

I was on vacation again, so here's the obligatory antlers picture. I already posted another one elsewhere, but that was taken with the (...

I'm playing with a Accellerometer/Gyroscope/Magnetometer board  (ebay, link probably stale soon), and to have it somewhat mobile, I'...

And remember: As long as the eggs aren't completely covered in snow, it's spring enough. From 2013-03-31

I got myself a plastic toy: A small box with a controlable LED that can be turned on- or off, with the intention of notifying the user of un...

For interfacing AES/EBU to S/PDIF , I've built a simple transformer out of a small ferrite core, I was planning to convert the 110Ω sy...

I'm a little annoyed by the limitations of the M-Audio Fast-Track Pro, so I'm thinking about how to mod it. My main grief is the aby...

Archlinux for me seems to miss any magic  that takes care of automatically providing the correct keymap to xorg's input driver . To mak...

Got myself Win8 for €30 (upgrade from a old Student-for-Free Vista license I never used, instead of €150 it looked like a bargain). My norma...

A friendly colleague gave me a Betty Remote . It's a marvelous device as a dirt-cheap ARM7 (LPC2200) eval board and flashing worked so ...

Update (November 2016):  Archlinux on the Toradex T20 (with Archlinux' kernel) A lot of people got hold of a Toradex T20 board which w...

Today I disassembled a MOTU 882 MK2 Audio Interface that exhibited significantly increased noise on one of the microphone preamplifier input...

It's not rocket science, but it took me a while to collect all the pieces, so here's a short summary, mainly to serve as a reminder ...