The power of TNT is at your disposal
TNT stands for Thumb2 Newlib Toolchain, a GCC/Newlib based toolchain project I started quite a while ago. Trying various other toolchains like CodeSourcery, summon-arm-toolchain and YAGARTO, I realized...
View ArticlePower supply failures can be pretty annoying to find
Recently one of the four drives in my HTPC kept dropping out, first it happened once every few days, then after several hours. The weird thing was that it always came back after losing the SATA link...
View ArticleRTL-SDR transformer mod
Some time ago I’ve tried the HF Mod (aka Direct Sampling Mod) on one of my dongles. The simplest way of doing it is by connecting one of the RTL2832U’s ADC (pin 1 or 2) inputs to an antenna which is...
View ArticlePress ‘L’ to loot Pandora
Given that Pandora is being Nazi about people’s backgrounds, (Or rather their IPs) I haven’t been able to use the service so far. Today though, I decided to hide behind a proxy and have a look at their...
View Articledi-di-di-dah di-di-di-dah multimon-ng just learnt morse!
(Showing off the timing detection capabilities. Only the first few characters are wrongfully decoded while adjusting from 24WPM to 12WPM.) Two weeks ago I thought writing a morse (aka CW) decoder...
View ArticleBlobby Volley 2 for OS X
For quite a while I felt like I missed out while my colleagues were competing in a fun little game called Blobby Volley 2. While the game itself is actually open source software, I wasn’t able to find...
View ArticleCapture of VDSL sync
So I just got VDSL, yay! Actually it’s more of a nay, given that it’s slower than the ADSL I used to have. While my ISP is supposedly busy analysing the problem, I have utilised my modified direct...
View Articlesigrok for OS X
Last weekend I spent some time compiling the open source signal analysis software sigrok and its GUI pulseview on OS X. While it still isn’t running perfectly smooth and there’s a major bug preventing...
View Articleverzweiflung – A story about how I hacked the internet
TL;DR verzweiflung (GitHub) is a highly pragmatic solution to packet loss in China (and other places) as well as sharing bandwidth with other users altogether – though at a cost. A class based system...
View ArticleCommander Keen for Nintendo Switch
Over the last few weekends I have been porting the Commander Keen interpreter Commander Genius to the Nintendo Switch. I am quite happy with the current state of the port, which supports plenty of...
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