Chris’ Miscellanea

So, I also got one of those ESP8266 wifi/serial modules, which are pretty neat. Unfortunately mine seemed to come with an ancient firmware o...

For playing with  GNU radio  I had to install quite a lot of dependencies to get all the modules to build, unfortunately there's current...

So, there was a lot of fuzz about a recent talk by Karsten Nohl et al. at BlackHat about the the unsecurity of current USB implementations ...

The DJ-X 16 is a very basic DMX controller, which I used to test out DMX controlled (d'uh...) LED lights. I cannot recommend it, it lac...

I played around with a Adsong AM2302 Temperature/Humidity sensor today which has a pretty neat serial interface. From Chris’ Miscellane...

Currently, when running a raspberry-pi with the l atest kernel available for Archlinux , access to the SPI bus via /dev/spidev no longer wo...

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...