Chris’ Miscellanea

Oh, pulseaudio , how do I love thee... The Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 is a 2 Mic, 2 Line, 2 Digital input, 4 Line, 2 Digital output audio int...

Here's a teardown of a Behringer XR18 (sometimes spelled X18R) Compact Digital Mixer . There's a full album with all pictures I to...

There's quite a lot of software available to do impulse response measurements, e.g. for doing measurements on loudspeakers or electronic...

Update August 9th: Just skip to the last line of this post where we realize that we could have spared us all of the hassles and resize2fs fr...

A recent upgrade of sshd apparently broke my saved putty connections, which have a deprecated key-exchange protocol on the top of the "...

The Eastron SDM220 is a very inexpensive one-phase power/energy meter, which can be readout via RS485. I got myself one to play with, and ...

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...