Research and Technology
Introduction The company ThinxNet GmbH from Munich offers the product TankTaler. It is an OBD-II compatible device that you can plug into your car. For people living in Stuttgart, Germany the device used to be free. It offers the following…
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PS3 Media Server on an ARM-based QNAP NAS is a very handy tool to play various kinds of media types on your playstation 3. Especially the live transcoding features are awesome. They essentially allow to transcode a video file on-the-fly…
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In may day job, we have some 20 old iMac G5 standing around. Those are no longer supported by Apple and the newest Version of Mac OS X that runs on them is so old, that it is so fun…
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At work, I have been working with the Raspberry PI and some additional hardware lately. We have a board that we call raspINGA that goes onto the extension pins of the Raspberry. The board contains an Atmel AT86RF231 radio chip…
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Over christmas, my brother and me were bored and were looking for something exciting to do. He has been playing with Arduino for quite a while and I am working with INGA in my day job. Since INGA is based on…
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If you want to use Wifi modules such as Edimax EW-7811Un with your Raspberry Pi, you will need the appropriate driver. For unknown reasons, the kernel-included driver for this module does not work. Luckily, Realtek is providing an open-source driver…
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The Level One WCS-0030 is a (relatively) cheap camera with wired and wireless network interfaces running Linux. We wanted to modify the firmware in order to install custom software, but only non-interesting ports are open on the network interface. Consequently,…
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Einleitung Ich habe ein Multifunktionsgerät, welches Drucken. Scannen und auch Faxen kann. In mein Heimnetz integriert es sich drahtlos per WLAN, an die Telefonleitung will es jedoch noch immer per Kabel. Das ist nicht nur unnötig sondern im praktischen Leben…
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To extend the disk space of my late-2007 iMac, I am currently looking for an external hard drive. To achieve acceptable speed and latency, it has to be a Firewire 800 drive. Furthermore, it has to be reasonable quite since…
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Introduction The Mikrotik Routerboards are cheap and versatile embedded platforms that can be used for routers, WiFi APs and the like. In a rather wide range of products, I happen to have access to the RB411 and the RB750 two…
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