Why Now? The Question That Unlocked My Journey to Purpose
Unlocking My Ikigai: Could It Be More than Just “Feeling Good”? Ever stop and wonder, “What’s the point of it all?” Lately, I’ve been grappling with that qu...
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Enabling comments
Being social to connect and grow Enabling comments has been for over a year on my to do list, but I never got to it. The need wasn’t very high as I didn’t ge...
Island Harmony: Exploring Challenges and Creativity in Limited Competition
Discovering Harmonies: A Stroll Through Madeira’s Musical Christmas As I strolled through the heart of Madeira’s city center, the melodic strains of the isla...
A Culinary Odyssey from the Canaries
Why I escape the cold Ever since I tossed my graduation cap into the air, I’ve made a habit of escaping the chilly winters of The Netherlands. The Canary Is...
The weird pricing of consumer goods in comparison with oil
The prize puzzle Have you ever wondered why soft drinks, such as Coca-Cola or Fanta, seem to carry a hefty price tag? As I pondered this question, I decided ...
Unveiling the Value of Time and Money: Pondering Life’s Priorities through Books and Reflection
Finding Serenity in Reading During Holidays While I’m not an avid reader in my day-to-day life, I find solace in reading during my holidays. It’s a time when...
Exploring the Fascinating Relationship Between Food and Culture While Traveling
Why I Travel and the Significance of Food Traveling is a true passion of mine, just like cooking. It opens up a world of new experiences and allows me to del...
A secret BOM tool used for my PCB assembly
Exploring PCB Design Tools: A interactive BOM tool for EAGLE Introduction When it comes to PCB design, choosing the right software tool is crucial for effic...
RGB lights even on your stairs
RGB on stairs that is boring Is what you might think. But let’s spice it up a bit by making them user aware. Okay, let’s put a motion sensor nearby and this...
Can’t update home assistant to latest version because of RUST
Can’t update home assistant with rust I kept getting the issue, error: can’t find Rust compiler on my truenas box. After looking everywhere and trying vari...
ShiBee stick flashing and teardown
To make or not to make a shtick A recent design of a ZigBee stick As mentioned before, I had issues with my old ZigBee stick. Also due to low inventory, be...
Automatic restart ESP8266 with ESP easy
A smart home with issues Recently, I had the issue where my ZigBee network would die every few days. After a lot of debugging and even re-pairing of all my ...
Designing a Nixie HV supply part 2
The 160 V Nixie power supply design WORKS Let’s firstly state the design you will read works without issue. The high voltage nixie power supply has been wor...
Creating a simple and cheap fan controller
From the need to the idea to the solution After upgrading my computer with the new Ryzen 5800x series, the new motherboard did not include a header to conne...
Creating a custom PCB business card with EAGLE
An idea I have looked into making my own business cards multiple times. They would be useful to carry with you just in case. However I never came up with so...
Automating jekyll build and github hosting
Backstory As people might have noticed this website runs on jekyll, which is code that creates static websites. Great for my simple blogging use. The easies...
Designing a Nixie HV supply part 1
Backstory Well basically the backstory is the introduction but shht :). Recently I designed a small PCB with an analog switch for my internship project. Thi...
Drawing O-rings for dad aka printing O-rings for dad part 2
Practicalities… While waiting for my Sainsmart 3D TPU filament to arrive, I still needed some other parts before I could start the printing. That is a CAD d...
Printing O-rings for dad
Backstory Today dad asked me if I could buy an O-ring as he needed one. The situation is as follows, the water drainage has a cup (diameter 9 cm) which seal...
Hello world!
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog… This is my first test post.