New year, new PC – based on AMD Ryzen After roughly 8 years it was time to upgrade my desktop computer. Even though…
Pinebook Pro: ARMazing or one-ARMed bandit? With the Pinebook Pro PINE64 offers a very interesting notebook based on an ARM…
DIY voice assistant part 4: Internet radio and other (bad) jokes In the last part of this series, we enabled the voice assistant to read…
Cooling your Raspberry Pi – reasonable or a waste? There are plenty of radiators and fans for the small single-board computer – but…
DIY voice assistant part 3: Temperature sensors and weather information In the last part of this series we linked Rhasspy and Node-RED to teach…
DIY voice assistant part 2: Linked components and first function In the last part of this series we checked-out and installed software for building…
DIY voice assistant part 1: Software options and installation Voice assistants are omnipresent gadgets loved by technophile geeks. They support ad-hoc tasks (set…
D-Link DGS-1510-28X – cheap 10G switch Some months ago, I built a small VSAN home lab. Gradualy I expanded the…
Spoiled for choice: new HDDs for my NAS 2016 seems to be the year of big hardware renewals for me – after…
ASUS P9D-M, ASMB7-IKVM and false vCenter alarms I was puzzled when I saw that the ESXi hosts of my new lab…