Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/30
Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Blue team, Bluetooth, Development, Encryption, ESP32, Hardware, Hardware Development, Hardware Interfacing, Home Audio/Video, HTTPS/TLS security, Infosec (Information Security), Network-and-equipment, Power User, Red team, Software Development, WiFi, Wireshark | Tagged: USBArmyKnife | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/25
I hope someone has also archived all these in the Internet Archive as this is a great collection of historic material: [WaybackSave/Archive] GitHub – gingerbeardman/apple-human-interface-guidelines: Apple Human Interface Guidelines, et al.
If you have more of them: add them via a pull-request.
Related: [Wayback/Archive] Making It Macintosh: The Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines Companion : Apple : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
A client that went belly up in the early 1990s had all these and similar books. In retrospect, I though have found a way to obtain them but back then I didn’t value the uniqueness of them enough and didn’t have the storage space for it (I lived in a 30m² apartment).
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Posted in //e, 68k, Apple, Apple Lisa, Classic Macintosh, Development, Hardware, History, Mac, NeXT, Power User, Software Development, User Experience (ux) | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/23
This was a cool post: [Wayback/Archive] 433 MHz is not dead! Using an ESP32 board with LoRa module to talk to 433 MHz sensors – CNX Software
433MHz LoRa Transceiver-based ESP32 board work with regular 433 MHz sensors found on the market. This gives end users a simple off-the-shelf solution for receiving these signals without having to use a soldering iron and making a circuit.
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This opens many doors regarding 433 MHz sensor readings with one device, including weather stations, doors, PIR, TPMS, temperature, and BBQ sensors.
Recommended reading!
Related: [Wayback/Archive] Making your RF 433mhz sensors and devices communicate with your home automation, gateways comparison
–jeroen
Posted in Development, ESP32, Hardware, Hardware Development, IoT Internet of Things, LoRa - Long Range wireless communications network, MQ Message Queueing/Queuing, MQTT, Network-and-equipment, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/22
Two kinds of RP-SMA dual-band WiFi antenna parts having :
- Y9MPH is an omnidirectional dipole stick antenna which most use
- 3TJ9N is a semidirectional patch/panel antenna on a wire which few people use but can be useful when you want to put the antenna into a place having better signal reception
Both are also supposed to work for Dell OptiPlex Micro models 3020/3040/3050/5020/5040/5050/7020/7040/7050 (as 5030/7030 models were never released and 3030/9030 only released as a different all-in-one PC form factor): basically the end of the Micro form factors in Dell OptiPlex Series 4 and start of Dell OptiPlex Series 5.
Links (some also containing part numbers for other related components like internal wiring and M.2 Wi-Fi cards):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/16
Not all virtualised hardware (older hardware usually has died by now) conforms to the Windows 11 minimum specifications.
So here are some links that should be of help to still get Windows 11 running on those:
If you insist on running older hardware that has a TPM header on the mainboard:
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Posted in CommandLine, Development, MSI, Power User, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 11, Z77A-G43 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/04
I have seen too many sites where cabling was laid en never tested before actual use, which meant locating the cabling and faults was a nightmare.
Be sure to have good (which can be very simple, but more complex when Power over Ethernet is involved) testing hardware and use it during installation. You will thank yourself later.
A few videos that can be helpful:
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Posted in Development, Ethernet, fiber, Hardware, Hardware Development, Internet, Network-and-equipment, PoE - Power over Ethernet, Power User | Tagged: cat5e, fiber, networking, run, shorts, toner | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/15
I have been contemplating on pfSense hardware as there has been a large shortage on that market especially for having more than 2 ports (similar to for instance Mikrotik PoE router unavailability).
If by now I have not found any, I might want to revisit [Wayback/Archive] Gowin R86S mini PC offers 2.5GbE and 10GbE networking for $310 and up – CNX Software has 3 RJ45 ports and 2 SFP+ cages.
They found it via this 4 page review:
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Posted in Ethernet, Hardware, MikroTik, Network-and-equipment, pfSense, Power User, routers | Leave a Comment »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 