Hardware

WiiMote hw update for Home Assistant

18th September 2026

OpenMote turns a Wiimote-style remote into an ESP32-S3 Home Assistant controller https://share.google/GsKF9acpDSWKOuHbb $59 board only diy $99 fully assembled

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MicroSD tested

22nd August 2026

MicroSD card torture test writes 133 petabytes of data across 351 cards over three years โ€” cards tested to failure reveal SanDisk as the outlier with 6 failures of the…

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ESP32 App Store

27th May 2026

with a simple click to install interface not sure if it’s specific to 1 waveshare pc hardware https://www.app-pixels.com

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Flipper Zero alt

3rd July 2024

Willy โ€“ a Flipper Zero alternative https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/07/02/willy-a-flipper-zero-alternative/

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Useful Hardware

22nd June 2023

Zimaboard 2 $180us (during kickstarter) 8ram 32nVme 2x 2.5Gbe Nic, PCIe x8, etc deets here. Ideal for a pfSense firewall. Kit for a home NAS or local backup NAS. Zimaboard…

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HP Proliant Firmware updates & troubleshooting

18th May 2023

only boots to Grub> promptChange the bios from Legacy boot mode to UEFI Boot mode Firmware Updates: Download the firmware package from https://support.hpe.com/connect/s/search#t=DriversandSoftware&sort=relevancy&numberOfResults=25 DO NOT use Ventoy, it will get…

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Foot petals and OBS

27th January 2022

My Son uses OBS to stream video. Some company has come out with a foot petal to switch backgrounds or whatever. I’m interested to try it with this software +…

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Cable Tester

11th May 2021

Don’t plug a cable tester into a switch. Our team just spent the entire day diagnosing this The network symptoms were increased latency, ping times to wired devices should be…

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FiberToTheHome C-Data hardware backdoors-a-plenty

11th July 2020
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HP SSD failure and FW patch

4th December 2019

Some HP SSD drives have 100% failure at 32768 hours of operation, caused by a firmware bug prior to HPD8. There is a firmware update to fix this but it…

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