TheStaticTurtle's Blog

Homelab

Adding an mSATA port to a Lenovo M73

Adding a mSATA port to the motherboard of a Lenovo ThinkCenter M73 to enable me to add High Availability to my homelab.

Concerts

Microphone tally lights

Creating a microphone holder with tally lights for a live show and integrating it to the MIDAS M32 mixing console

Homelab

Sending notifications on user login

Writing a small bash script to send a notification in my telegram monitoring channel each time a user logs in to one of my server

Homelab

Homelab Single-Sign On?

Installing an SSO solution in my homelab with Authelia to facilitate the user management and reduce the number of logins required.

Homelab

Running an ACME in my homelab

Running the open-source step-ca ACME server to provision SSL certificates in my homelab

Python

Automating my Outlook calendars

Making my life easier by creating a simple python script to generate Outlook meetings from an Excel spreadsheet.

Homelab

Adding a C14 connector to my Mikrotik switch

Recently, I bought some used mikrotik CRS326-24G-2S+RM These switches are remarkable 1g switches for the price, but they have one flaw: they use an external power adapter So, I decided to add an IEC C14 connector to it.

Python

Rendering SVG with KiCad scripting API

The adventure of rendering SVGs with KiCad pcbnew python api. What I wanted to do was pretty simple, at least I thought, I wanted to replicate the comportment of the "Export → SVG" button in KiCad.

Automation

Too cold? Let's predict things!

Writing a NodeRed flow to determine when my pool will be at an acceptable temperature using the sun and maths

Home Automation

Keeping it cool, automating a window

Let's make a completely overkill project to automate my skylight and integrate it with HomeAssistant.

Homelab

Let's talk about WireGuard

Let's see what WireGuard, the fastest and newest VPN protocol, can offer us.

Electronics

TurtleAuth 2.1: A design for everyday use

Making a updated and sturdier second version of TurtleAuth, my stm32 based GNUK and U2F tokens

Docker

Fixing a dev worst nightmare

Stack Overflow having some kind of maintenance is scary. In this post, I'm solving this once and for all by hosting a local copy of the answers.

Homelab

TrueNAS - SMB LDAP Auth

The very long story on how I setup LDAP authentication for my samba shares with ACLs on TrueNAS

DIY

Wireless audio part 2 — Working prototype

Second version of my CC85XX wireless audio transceiver prototype

Docker

Using docker to contain projects

How I converted my own NodeJS s3 bucket caching system to a simple docker container for easy deployment of servers / scripts

Home Automation

Bridging the gap between old and new, garage door gets a Wi-Fi controller

Building a stable and secure garage door controller that interfaces to the original controller

DIY

Getting started with HID and the Pi Pico

Using the Raspberry Pi Pico and circuit python with a joystick to control the computer mouse

DIY

Wireless audio part 1 - 1st prototype

Making the first prototype of my wireless audio system using Ti's CC85XX series chips

DIY

Stop now!! (Freebox parental api)

Using the freebox API to control a profile internet access with a big red button to toggle it (Oh and also rgb)

DIY

Dirt cheap DIY USB

A little after that every blog was popping with the uvc-gadget script to turn your pi4/pi0 into a high quality USB camera. [...] And so at 2am it was decided I was making a webcam