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Calibrating an LED driver board

Posted on February 11, 2021 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’ve recently been getting into projects using LEDs. And one project is building a light using the YujiLED 100W COB. (Only available in pairs, it seems.) ...

10Gb network upgrade

MikroTik CSS610

Posted on January 16, 2021 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Note: MikroTik recently introduced the CSS610-8P-2S+-IN, which has Power-Over-Ethernet (POE). This review is about the CSS610-8G-2S+-IN, which does not have POE...

Server projects

Quasi-diskless Linux installation with iSCSI and no PXE

Posted on December 11, 2020 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

So let me set the scene. On my rack I have Nasira, which is a FreeNAS server with about 30TB effective storage. It’s connected to a 10GbE connection, buil...

Mira

A more intelligent radiator box

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Last I left this series, I mentioned a next step was making the radiator box smarter. The current iteration of the radiator box now includes intelligent control...

Mira

Back to AMD

Posted on March 13, 2020 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Mira started life back in late 2016 as my first foray back to Intel in… 17 years. Here’s a rough timeline: 1998: 486 DX2 (used Gateway machine) 1999...

Desert Sapphire

A few problems to overcome

Posted on April 14, 2019 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Two years passed since I last looked at Desert Sapphire. I was supposed to do maintenance on it last year, but some badly timed food poisoning (when is it ever ...

Mira

Some changes to the radiator box

Posted on March 17, 2019 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Back almost three years ago in 2016, I set out to do something rather unique with regard to water cooling: building an external, self-contained radiator box. An...

Server projects

Hosting a mail server on a home network

Posted on March 10, 2019 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Before diving deeper, a preface. This article will not be discussing how to set up a mail server. Mostly. Instead I’m going over some of the complications...

10Gb network upgrade/Product and service reviews

MikroTik CRS317 10GbE switch

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

For the last two years I’ve been using the Quanta LB6M as the backbone of my home network. A 24 port SFP+ switch with four (4) GbE RJ45 ports connecting t...

Amethyst

Slight detour

Posted on November 18, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Trying to find a place in Kansas City where I can rent a spray booth without having to buy a guild membership is becoming rather arduous. I did find a place out...

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