Build, Experiment, and Innovate. Explore hands-on projects and personal homelabs. From server setups to DIY creations, learn how to innovate and experiment with technology at home.
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A few months ago, my brother contacted me for some help with his Nvidia Shield Tablet. Because of a bad charging port, he was unable to restart the tablet and get some of his data. Unfortunately, fixing the charging port of this model of tablet is ridiculously difficult. The frustrating
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In a Homelab, disk shelves are a simple solution to add storage to an existing server. Just add an SAS adapter for some extra external SAS ports and you are ready. On the r/Homelab sub-reddit, older disk shelves, such as the NetApp DS4243 or the Dell MD1200 are popular,
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It's not secret that I am a big fan of Ubiquiti hardware. I've already written about their hardware twice in the past. But this latest upgrade to my home network is elegant superfluousness : the Ubiquiti US-8-150W 8 port POE switch. Why buy this? The Ubiquiti US-8-150W provides two main advantages
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Having used computers for the last thirty years, I've seen my share of disasters. The biggest impact of these incidents is always data loss : hardware can always be replaced but once data is lost, it is gone. That is why data should always be regularly backup. As such, I have
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Wifi is difficult to deploy properly and even more difficult to debug. When living in a small apartment, the solution is pretty simple : place a simple wifi router roughly in the middle of the appartement. However, in a large multi-floor house, getting a strong wifi signal in every room can
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Solutions to share the Internet on a network have tremendiously evolved in the last twenty years. My first experience was using Wingate, a software proxy that could act as an Internet gateway. Along with the introduction of Internet broadband came the consumer gateways, such as the iconic Linksys BEFSR41. The
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EDIT : The T20 might be a bit old, but Dell continued the series with the T30 and the T40. You might want to check them out. A server is a computer decided to providing one or more services. In the case of home offices, the most common type would be
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One of the important aspect of Linux is its Open Source nature: everyone is free to contribute and no one "owns" Linux. This creates a great diversity which is both a strength and a weakness for the operating system. Wars over the best "distro" of Linux are fought with religious
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Streamline your home lab with the Dell 2161DS-2 KVM switch. Discover its innovative cable management and pitfalls of Java dependency in this retrospective review. Is it still a viable option?
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Last year, the development team for Ghost blog announced a partnership with Cloudflare. The goal was to improve the Ghost(Pro) infrastructure, making it faster and more secure. With a little tinkering, Cloudflare can be used with any Ghost blog. Technodabbler received this upgrade a couple of days ago. But
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A few years ago, I was lucky enough to receive a Lego NXT Mindstorm kit as a gift from my wife. With it, one can build a robot using technical legos, motors and sensors. A special programmable brick is used to control the behavior of the robot. As a programmer,
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Being from a Computer Science background, I learned essential skills in problem solving using computers. However, little of my training involves how a computer works at the electronic level. I understand the role of logic gates in a microprocessor and I’ve had some experience at micro-programming. However, don’t
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I have rather large collection of home videos encoded in Xvid format. VHS being an unreliable media, I digitally converted my home video librarie to this popular computer format. About a year ago, I started looking around for a solution that would allow me to view my Xvid videos on
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If cooling PCs with water is bold, using frozen alcohol is outright insane. Project E.U.N.U.C.H. dares to push boundaries, running Half-Life on a 486 with frosty ingenuity.