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Making a NAS out of my Raspberry Pi 4
I used to have a Raspberry Pi B (model 1) act as my NAS.The PI (or probably it’s memory card) died on me, and I’ve always been appalled by it’s slow, slow data throughput, so I ordered a new Raspberry Pi 3B+. Literally two days after it ordered, the Pi 4B+ was announced. So I …
Downloading tile maps
I love the website Cartesius, which has a trove of old topographic maps of Belgium.One of the maps that I consult the most is a stitch of all topographic maps of Belgium of 1969, zoomable and pannable like openstreetmaps. However, lately, the site has been acting strangely. The front portal continuously reloads, so it is …
My railway edits on Openstreetmap
A list of all things railway-related I put on openstreetmap (since october 2021) 2020-10-21 Removed a siding in Anderlues Depot of the Métro Léger de Charleroi 2020-10-22 Changed the depot of the Amsteltram to “in use” 2021-10-2 Removed most of the Dijksgracht Removed a lot of tracks near Schaarbeek and added two tracks in Deventer …
Reasons for the housing shortage in the Netherlands
Sadly, there is not one single reason for the housing crisis in the Netherlands, or we could — with effort — fix that problem. There are reasons that have been building since the 1980’s. In a recent discussion I came up with the following reasons for the housing crisis that each for themselves would not …
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Repairing my fridge
I have a fridge I bought in 2009. In the door, there is a tray that holds heavy items like yoghurt cartons. That tray was held up with two tiny tabs on each side, which fall in a slot in the side of the tray. In 2013, those tabs broke off, which rendered the tray …
Using the LCD
I found an old beaten-up CD player a while back, and decided to take out the human interface card, with the LCD and buttons on it. In a previous episode, I managed to get the LCD to do something. Now, I will try to let it do exactly what I want it to do! The …
Scanning keys
Now that I deciphered where everything goes and how everything works, it was time to make sure I build a foundation to make the I/O a little more usable, instead of fetching raw data. Fist stop: make the input buttons accessible. Working with keypresses is actually not as simple as I intuitively thought. If you …
Controlling the card
I found an old beaten-up CD player a while back, and decided to take out the human interface card, with the LCD and buttons on it. In a previous post, I found out where all the connections on the PCB go and how they connect the buttons, LCD and chips together and what they do. …
Interfacing with a human interface card
I found an old beaten-up CD player (a Philips AK601) next to the trash container a while back.I picked it up, found it not worthy of being taken back into use, so I decided to open it up and maybe gut it for parts. I found a couple of motors inside, but what really drew …