I bought the Elgato Stream Deck XL about a year ago. It’s an amazing piece of tech that justifies my poor economic choices (For all gods sake, it’s buttons with screens for 250EUR). But after a year, I still love it, and I’ll tell you why. Use case Most of the time, I would use Stream...
We’ve seen it time and time again. A sleek mobile app designed by a top-tier agency.An edge device engineered by seasoned embedded veterans.A scalable cloud platform spun up by cloud-native DevOps. Each part polished. Each team proud. And yet, somehow, the product falls flat when it reaches the end customer. Welcome to the silent...
The recent blackout that plunged Spain and Portugal into darkness for nearly a day has reignited discussions about the resilience of modern power grids and the potential role of Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) technologies, particularly Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G), in enhancing grid stability. As the Iberian Peninsula grapples with the aftermath, it’s crucial to explore how V2G could...
I’m an active 3D printer user. I have been for the last 9 years. I started with Anet A8. Boy oh boy, printers back in the day were problematic. I’ve probably tinkered a second printer out of it. Then I moved on to using Ender and Prusa MK3. I also used a few resin...
Today, as I was sipping my morning coffee and planning a quick check on my solar house projects, the news broke: a massive blackout swept across Spain and Portugal. Airports closed, metros stopped mid-tunnel, and-most importantly for the local butchers and ice-cream shops-fridges and freezers went dark. It’s the kind of event that makes...
I’m an outdoors man. I was spending a good portion of my free time hiking, sleeping in tents or hammocks. But with time, it was just harder and harder to find time, to spend it like that. Last year, my wife gave me a present – a gardening plot! What a great gift! Now,...
If you want to know more about Virtual Power Plants — related to this topic — please read: . Why Are We Even Talking About This?The growing demand for electrical energy (EE) is a more significant problem than one might think. The world is not like...
If you’re interested in how we powered up our 3d printer when Zombies are running through the earth, check Part 1 of this article. Ok, so we’re prepared for our setup but haven’t we stated that in our scenario resources are thin world is inhabited by but not most pleasant brain eaters? YUP....
DSP-700GB is an affordable alternative to new, fancy power supplies that would cost around 100 EUR for same current rating. Which is staggering 56A at 12VDC. As it will not just output 12V on its pads, it needs some additional treatment. Connect pad 4 and 7 to GND (left or right doesn’t matter), that...
