Author Archives: andy

Rotate your wheels

Skating gives a lot of fun. When mastered enough, it is like flying few centimeters over the pavements. To make this feeling persistent, I am going to tell you my secrets of perfect wheels’ rolling. I was inspired by the … Continue reading

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Hello AVR world!

Years ago I have been in electronics world, while never seriously touched digital techniques. I dropped electronics in favour of computer science and become sofware specialist. Now getting back to electronics I see the power in programming integrated circuit to … Continue reading

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Rigol DS1052E silenced

If you are into electronics you probably know this very popular digital oscilloscope for amateurs. You might hear about its very annoying affliction: noisy stock fan. You need 5 euro and 20 minutes to make this device virtually soundless.

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Grounded by Eyjafjallajökull

At night before my travel back home, I have watched the report on Iceland volcano eruption. It was mid of April 2010 and I was nearly 1000km from home, in Romania. I deluded myself the ash cloud will neither get … Continue reading

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In Moscow like in hell

July 2010 was nervous in Moscow. Hundreds of square kilometers of Russian greenfields and forests were burning around the capitol in uncontrolled way. And I had to be there in business trip.

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WordPress glitches with lighttpd on OpenWRT

When I started playing with wordpress as another service on my tiny server box I integrated it with basic OpenWRT webserver, the uhttpd. To leverage from pretty permalinks, secure administration, or to prevent from images hotlinking I decided to migrate … Continue reading

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Casablanca in January

My job requires travelling from time to time, usually in Europe. Sometimes however I am assigned to tasks in more exotic places. In January I spent a week in Casablanca, Morocco. It was not vacation and every day was fully … Continue reading

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USB mod for TL-WR1043ND

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Encouraged by successful RAM modification I started consider extension of USB ports number in TP-Link device. Originally it contains only one USB2.0 port and if you are using extroot (file system on external storage), you effectively have no free USB … Continue reading

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64MB RAM mod for TL-WR1043ND

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When I read about hardware modifications of unextendable home-targetted routers, I thought, nerds! On the other hand, doubling RAM memory size for pennies, is attractive perspective for anyone, who plans switch firmware to embedded linux and host services far beyond … Continue reading

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Rules engine in energy sector

At the end of last year I wrote an article about Business Rules Management System for Energy and Utilities magazine, publishing by one of ISVs in energy sector in Poland. Honestly speaking, I almost forgot about that until today, when … Continue reading

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