Projects

Here you can see some of my projects and a few interesting pics and/or documentation of it!

DS411+II fan swap

Synology DS411+II fan swap ๐Ÿ›  Since I wanted to update/replace the fans on my NAS, I thought Iโ€™d document the work made, with some additional information for anyone attempting, and hopefully succeeding in swapping their fans on the DS411+II and similair models! How it looked before, after, and a heads up ๐Ÿ›‘ This is the stock configuration, the fans installed are as follows: EC4010M12ER 40x40x10 mm (CPU fan) KDE1208PKV3 80x80x20 mm (case fans) Problem is: All of those, including alternative models, are usually extremely expensive or unobtanium.
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NAS stories

Background information โ„น I always loved the idea of a proper NAS, lovely to have a lot of storage accessible at high speed and it being local meaning easy troubleshooting if SHTF. In my old living situation I had access to a wonderful NAS, about 3 TB in size, used it each and every day for all my storage needs. Since I moved to a new apartment and my relationship changed, I had to get a new NAS and some new HDDs anyway.
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LGBTQ+ torch

LGBTQ+ torch trinket project First of all: Thank you for visiting my website and especially this site! Now that we have that out of the way: What is it? Itโ€™s a lovely small USB powered gadget, meant to be fun and supportive to LGBTQ+ folks, and as a bit of a covid distraction for myself. Features: USB type A (for power) USB type C (for power) 12 LEDs, fixed color (pride flag!
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Githooks

Git hooks with Windows, gitea and linux! I run and host a small gitea git server on my own server locally, and wanted to implement git hooks for this very website and gitea, so that the following prodecure would work flawlessly: Make change to website git add/commit git push git hook on webserver started git clone from gitea run hugo serve static data to public website I had some problems with this, especially on the windows side (donโ€™t ask why i have to use windows ๐Ÿ˜‹), but i finally managed to fix those and now it works like a charm!
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HTC Vive and Valve Index

HTC Vive VR is mad awesome, super fun and really immersive! I got myself a used HTC Vive from a local website where you can buy and sell used goods, itโ€™s Willhaben.at. I really love how it feels, and iโ€™ll document some of my problems and tweaks here! Problems and solutions: Cables are far too short! The included cables were far too short for my setup (which really is an awkward one needless to say!
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HP8591A spectrum analyzer

I just got a spectrum analyzer! Since i drift more and more into radio stuff, i decided to go ahead and get a spectrum analyzer to build and calibrate radio equiptment. I found a used HP 8591A for 650 bucks, haggled the seller down to 550 and that was the deal! At the moment iโ€™m waiting for it to arrive in the mail so i can finally play with it! I also saw itโ€™s missing the calibration cable, which it just a ~30 cm long N to BNC cable, probably RG58 or the like.
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Kenwood 515S

Kenwood TS-515S This is an old tube rig i got for free from a german amateur radio operator, because they cleaned up a clubโ€™s basement, and this radio seemed too useless to keep. The good thing is, i have a free and totally awesome boatanchor tube radio! The bad thing is, itโ€™s missing the essential PSU, which puts out some relatively high and unusual voltages like 900VDC for the anodes of the power amplifier stage.
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