Giddi's space

If you have read some of my previous posts you’ll know that my QNAP TS-473A has been keeping me busy for a while.

Background Last November I got myself a small dishwasher, a counter-top model from a local vendor.

A few months ago, I updated a kernel module I wrote (qnap8528) to expose an interface to the LEDs on my QNAP TS-473A NAS.

I was running some unattended tasks on my computer and wanted a quick and easy way to monitor the state of the tasks and other parameters while away from my local network.

UPDATE 19/09/2024: Added the ISO mount process and the recursive copy to the flash drive I mistakenly ommited.

When I got my NAS, I also got two NVME drives and some extra memory to fit in it, while fitting in the NVME drives I noticed a bunch of connectors on the top of the motherboard and one on the bottom.

Background Almost two years ago, I purchased the Roborock S7 MaxV Ultra, a vacuum and mopping robot with an “Ultra” docking station for filling its moping water tank, cleaning the mop, and emptying the dustbin into a larger bag.

unRAID requires a physical USB to boot and I hate that.

Approximately 2 years ago, I bought a Xiaomi YeeLight bulb (color) for my bedroom.

A few months back I finally bought an oscilloscope, I bought it off a friend that was not really using it anymore (which was evident by the sheer amount of spiders inside the case).

Ever since I made my blog public, I started getting spam emails to my “@giddi.net” account.

While searching my local pharmacy shelves for a product, I came across some pregnancy tests, I normally don’t really pay attention to this kind of stuff since, as a boy, I don’t thing I can get pregnant.

Intorduction A while back, I watched a video on YouTube by Big Clive in which he showed and tore down a device that is used to manipulate the mileage displayed on an odometer of a car.

While everybody in my area are preparing for Passover and doing some cleaning, I came across a bunch of CD-ROMs that have be left on a wall near my house for the public.

Introduction In the past few years I have wanted to explore the world of different signals from space.

In the past few days, I have been playing around with some hobby pulse sensors (pulsesensor.com) and ECG (AD8232) modules.

After going over the Switcher’s overview and internal components in part 1 it was time to take a closer look at the specifics of each component.

On 03/12/2017 I attempted to read a magnetic card strip using iron oxdie (FeO) powder created by decomposing steel wool with a blowtorch.

On advice from a friend, I ended up buying a Swticher V2 to connect to an immersion heater and replace the analog timer with a more modern digital one, which contains features such as timer mode, scheduler and power consumption calculator.

For far to long I have wanted to make PCBs at home.

In one of my draws, I have a bunch of old HDDs from over the years, I was looking for a file related to an ond project I had created back in 2009, when I realized that old my older HDDs have an IDE/PATA interface and I will not be able to read them with my

In the previous part of this project I found that it is possible to boot a custom image on DigitalOcean droplets by writing a new MBR to the disk and the corresponding files.

A while back I signed up to DigitalOcean and setup a droplet (DO speak for VPS) and was happy to have a service that will allow me to deploy Linux test machines in a matter of seconds.