Category: Hardware

A perfect cradle for your personal cloud

Quite a few months ago, I started an ambitious project. My goal was to create a case for Raspberry Pis to combine them into a cluster and run Kubernetes. Constrains were the following: The case should host three Raspberry...

Fixing Rock64 v2 Gigabit Ethernet

Half a year ago I bought three Rock64 (4 GB model) for my home Kubernetes cluster and I was mostly happy with them, they are quick, quiet and reliable. Although, I noticed one issue. From time to time the...

Flashing ESP8266

Recently I got a very cool device – a tiny ESP8266 development board from Olimex (MOD-WIFI-ESP8266-DEV).  Why is it cool? Because it’s basically a micro-controller with embedded WiFi capabilities and TCP/IP stack which you can access via AT commands...