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Release: A self hosted podcast manager for your personal cloud

After several months of development time, I would like to present a preview of my new Podcast app. Soon it will be a fully featured podcast manager which you can integrate into your existing personal Nextcloud instance. In this preview release, the app already includes some neat features: Browse podcast categories and charts, scroll through […]

Hardware

Baltic Sailing Journey How-to

In spring ’19 I bought a small sail boat, refurbished it, learned to sail and spent half a year on the Baltic sea. This is a short summary of this project. Motivation and finding a boat I had no prior experience in sailing and never sailed any boat before. In February 2019 I watched my […]

Artwork

Drone RGB Light Painting

While staying at a party together with friends, we took the opportunity to test out my newly build LED-iluminated Quadcopter. Before that, i figured out a way to wire all that LED stuff to my drone. I drilled 4 wires (5V+,Gnd,D-in,D-out) together to connect the LED-stripe on every arm. Soldered all the wires, insolated, stripped […]

Hardware

PC Power-Switch insane

When your desktop PC randomly going off at work (sometimes a few seconds after pushing the button) or sometimes switch on spontaneously, you could mean, that it is an defect from motherboard or the power supply. You might check the motherboard for bloated capacitor and replace them. If the problem still exists after the repairing […]

Software

Nextcloud Radio app 1.0 released

Finally the complete rewrite of the Radio app is ready for it’s first release. It is now based on VueJS, has many new features, improved stability and better performance. Here’s a short overview of the new features! The image above shows a new page in the app, the “Recent” category. Every station you play will […]

Hardware

Aus dem Archiv: Elektro-Papierflieger

Eigentlich ein einfacher Hack zwischendurch, aber das Ergebnis hatte uns selber überrascht! Ein Papierflieger, ausgestattet mit Modellbau-LiPo-Zellen und zwei kleinen Lüftern wird zum autonomen Flugobjekt. Unser Modellbauexperte st hatte in der alten WG sein ganzes Know-How in den kleinen Papierflieger gesteckt. Der Testflug dauerte länger als gedacht, endete dann aber unerhofft in einem Balkon des […]

Travel

Hitch-Hikers Packing List

Packing lists come in handy when preparing a travel, especially if the trip is planed spontaneously and you wanna get going asap! Here comes the list, I’ve put together over the past years and used for a couple of inter European hikes. I like it slim and light, as you wanna be flexible and are […]

Hardware

Low-tech “mild coffee” with Aeropress

In this post, I present an Aeropress recipe that uses a “mild coffee” arabica roast (readily ground, no espresso) without the need of a scale or thermometer. Motivation Like many, often times I like to grind my coffee, use a fresh roast and engage a scale and a thermometer in the process. So all in […]