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  Bringing an Apple AirTag Back to Life

  If you’re lazy like me, you’ll probably have a few gadgets laying about the house that have flat batteries. If one of them is an Apple AirTag, it might not be as simple as just popping in a fresh CR2032 and closing it back up.

  2023-11-27

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  SQLite Adventure

  Nearly a decade ago, @edent published a choose-your-own-adventure game where Twitter was the game engine. This was perfect nerd-sniping bait. How far could you bend a common tool and use it to build a game? How small could a game engine be?

  2023-11-23

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  Bringing a VanMoof X3 or S3 Back to Life – Part 2 – Battery Pack

  This is part 2 of my adventures in bringing our VanMoof X3 back to life. This time I tear down and then manually refresh the lithium ion cells in the bike’s primary battery pack.

  2023-10-13

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  Bringing a VanMoof X3 or S3 Back to Life – Part 1 – Smart Cartridge

  We put our VanMoof X3 in storage over winter and unknowingly let its battery go flat. The smart circuits in the bike then refused to charge these flat batteries. This is part 1 of my adventures in manually refreshing the Lithium-Poly cells and bring the bike back to life.

  2023-09-08

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  Radxa Rock 5B as a Raspberry Pi replacement?

  In early 2023, the Rock 5B from Radxa seemed to poised to take the Raspberry Pi’s crown for the best SBC for Linux desktops. I ordered and managed to sit down and get to grips with it. Immediately, I stumbled in to this devices biggest caveat – powering it on.

  2023-09-01

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  Installing OpenWrt on a Unifi AP AC Lite in 2023

  OpenWrt is a very powerful OS and can be configured to be much more useful and capable than just an access point, but our goal here is just to replace the OS on the Unifi AP AC Lite with OpenWrt, leaving the AP to only handle wireless connectivity to the rest of your network.

  2023-07-25

• Weeknotes for 9th December 2019 – 15th December 2019

  Fàilte agus tapadh leibh, a charaid! This one’s a little late, but it’s finally here; another #weeknotes report! This week was a different one for me as it was focused on learning rather than building.

  2019-12-21