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I Tried The New TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus, Is It Any Good?

A few months ago I built an all-SSD NAS using a Raspberry Pi 5 and a quad-SATA hat from Radxa. By adding a 2.5Gb Ethernet adapter, I managed to get...
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I Tried The ZimaCube Pro, Is This The Perfect Home Server?

Today we’re going to be taking a look at the ZimaCube Pro. This is a new device from IceWhale, the company that...
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Beelink EX Docking Station For The GTi 14 Ultra

A couple of weeks ago, I tested the Beelink GTi 14 Ultra, a powerful mini PC with...
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I Tried The New TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus, Is It Any Good?

A few months ago I built an all-SSD NAS using a Raspberry Pi 5 and a quad-SATA...
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I Tried The ZimaCube Pro, Is This The Perfect Home Server?

Today we’re going to be taking a look at the ZimaCube Pro. This is a new device...
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Personal Cloud Server Using A Pi 5 – Made With The Omtech Polar

The cost of cloud services might not be that significant for one month, but the recurring costs...
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Personal Cloud Server Using A Pi 5 – Made With The Omtech Polar

The cost of cloud services might not be that significant for one month, but the recurring costs quickly stack up. In a couple...
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CrowView Note 14″ Workstation – Unboxing and Review

The CrowView Note is a new laptop-style, self-powered portable monitor with a keyboard, trackpad, microphone and speakers built in. It has been designed...
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Pironman 5 NVMe Raspberry Pi 5 Case Review

Today we’re going to be taking a look at new the Pironman 5 case by Sunfounder. This case has been designed to house...
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I Turned PET Bottles Into A 3D Printed Pi Case – PET Bottle Recycler Part 2

A few weeks ago I published a project on the controller that I designed for a PET bottle recycler that I've been working...
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PET Bottle Recycler Part 1 – Using An Arduino Uno R4 To Control A 3D Printer’s Hotend

Today we're going to be using the new Arduino Uno R4 WiFi to build a controller for a PET bottle recycler. I'm doing...
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Meet Bittle, an Advanced Open-Source Robot Dog by Petoi

This is Bittle, a ready-to-run advanced open-source robot dog by Petoi that is based on the OpenCat robotic pet framework. If you’ve ever wanted...
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What Makes TMC2208 Stepper Motor Drivers Silent

A while ago I did a bit of an experiment to compare the sound level between TMC2208 and A4988 stepper motor drivers. At...
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Grafana Weather Dashboard using InfluxDB and an ESP32 – In-Depth Tutorial

Following one of my previous projects where I built a weather station dashboard using InfluxDB and Grafana on the reTerminal, I had quite...
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Making An Ultra Low Power Arduino Pro

This 3.3V Arduino Pro Mini uses over 600 times less power than a traditional Pro Mini, using a couple of simple, low power,...
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Personal Cloud Server Using A Pi 5 – Made With The Omtech Polar

The cost of cloud services might not be that significant for one month, but the recurring costs quickly stack up. In a couple...
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Raspberry Pi 5 vs Intel N100 PC – Which Is Right For You?

On a couple of my YouTube videos since the launch of the Raspberry Pi 5 last year, people have said that for the...
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I Built A 4-Bay Raspberry Pi 5 Based NAS

Last year, I built a Pi-based NAS as cheaply as possible using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W. It was a great project to...
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LincStation N1 All-SSD NAS by LincPlus, Unboxing & Review

Today we're going to be taking a look at the LincStation N1, a 6-bay all-SSD NAS by...
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I Tried 3 New Hats For The Raspberry Pi 5

Today we've got three new hats for the Raspberry Pi 5 that we will be trying out....
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Beelink EX Docking Station For The GTi 14 Ultra

A couple of weeks ago, I tested the Beelink GTi 14 Ultra, a powerful mini PC with a full-size PCIe port underneath it. At the time Beelink said that this...
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Electronics Projects

I Tried The New TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus, Is It Any Good?

A few months ago I built an all-SSD NAS using a Raspberry Pi 5 and a quad-SATA...
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I Tried The ZimaCube Pro, Is This The Perfect Home Server?

Today we’re going to be taking a look at the ZimaCube Pro. This is a new device...
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Electronics Projects

Personal Cloud Server Using A Pi 5 – Made With The Omtech Polar

The cost of cloud services might not be that significant for one month, but the recurring costs...
Michael Klements -
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Electronics Projects

CrowView Note 14″ Workstation – Unboxing and Review

The CrowView Note is a new laptop-style, self-powered portable monitor with a keyboard, trackpad, microphone and speakers...
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LincStation N1 All-SSD NAS by LincPlus, Unboxing & Review

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Today we're going to be taking a look at the LincStation N1, a 6-bay all-SSD NAS by LincPlus. It is marketed as being great...

I Tried 3 New Hats For The Raspberry Pi 5

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Today we've got three new hats for the Raspberry Pi 5 that we will be trying out. I've used variants of each of these...

Beelink EX Docking Station For The GTi 14 Ultra

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A couple of weeks ago, I tested the Beelink GTi 14 Ultra, a powerful mini PC with a full-size PCIe port underneath it. At...

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I Built A 4-Bay Raspberry Pi 5 Based NAS

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Last year, I built a Pi-based NAS as cheaply as possible using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W. It was a great project to learn...

Recondition a Lead Acid Battery, Don’t Buy A New One

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Lead acid batteries often die due to an accumulation of lead sulphate crystals on the plates inside the battery, fortunately, you can recondition your...

Multiple Push Buttons on One Arduino Input

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The most commonly used Arduino board, the Arduino Uno, only has 12 available digital IO pins, so you may find yourself quickly running out...

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