Update firmware on Sonoff Zigbee stick with a k8s batch

Figured I should update the firmware on my Zigbee coordinator stick. Still attached to my pi-cluster so… Found this docker approach https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/adapters/flashing/flashing_via_cc2538-bsl.html?fbclid=IwAR30bhQSMBWQ82gyIR3tewr0VUktJWETEUjWFt_pSznuYe8yj0veOWEJyCw#method-with-docker-linux-only Since I don't have docker on my pi host I did it as a…

import existing ssh keys into gpg

Really just condensing: https://opensource.com/article/19/4/gpg-subkeys-ssh-multiples arch -arm64e brew install monkeysphere gpg -a --export-secret-keys hedefalk > my_gpg_key.asc # create a temp area for gpg mkdir temp_gpg chmod go-rwx temp_gpg/ # import gpg --homedir temp_gpg --import my_gpg_key.asc #verify: gpg -K --homedir…

Fixing Late 2016 MBP #flexgate

A couple of weeks ago my 15" MBP from late 2016 started showing signs of #flexgate. Please Google it! In short, the backlight flex cable connecting the main body with the screen is too short by design and breaks in a couple of years of normal use. Just around the…

DIY Eurorack case

This is a work log of my DIY eurorack synth case. Planning I started out by doing some digital sketches of panel layout using jscad. Idea was to build out of oak boards: I moved from openscad to jscad to be able to abstract using npm packages and such. Still…

Eurorack speakers

Found these old battery driven plastic PC speakers from the "multimedia" era: I've felt the need for some kind of lab/experiment speakers where real big speakers might not be an option. A little bit more fun with speakers than headphones for social tinkering. I trashed the electronics and just…

Soldering pot mod

I bought this cheap soldering pot from aliexpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32886038760.html?spm=a2g0s.12269583.0.0.4a9679ccLu6iGB Pictures showed a grounded cable, but the one I got didn't have that. This would be illegal in Sweden I think: This is how it looks inside, mains wiring…

THAT 2159 VCA

I salvadged 32 units of THAT2159 VCA chips from an old Behringer digital mixer. Been planning to build Eurorack VCA's from them and successfully breadboarded a very simple design based on the datasheet and the GMSN Pure VCA (that uses 2181 if I recall correctly). So I this is a…

Letsencrypt on GKE with multiple domains

I've been using LetEncrypt on GKE via cert-manager based on this tutorial https://github.com/ahmetb/gke-letsencrypt/ I've had some issues though that the Ingress for some reason stops serving my apps at times because of this cert-manager. I never really figured it out, but sometimes stuff just breaks and…