Electronics Ten Games, One LED Panel, and a Radio That Would Not Share I bought a 16x16 LED matrix for no reason, left it in a drawer for a year, then turned it into a ten-game arcade driven by a controller Google abandoned. Here is how it came together, including the bug that cost me an evening.
homelab Why I Containerized My Entire Homelab (And the One Mistake That Broke Everything First) How a Christmas gift, a seven-year gap, and a very confusing mount path problem convinced me to containerize everything — and why I'll never go back to bare metal.
homelab My Homelab in 2026: 32 Containers, 85TB, and an Arc A380 That Changed Everything A tour of balor — the server in my closet running 32 Docker containers, a MergerFS storage pool, and an Intel Arc A380 that handles media transcoding so the CPU doesn't have to.
Meshtastic Scrolling Meshtastic Messages on an 8x32 WS2812B LED Panel: Custom Firmware, MQTT, and the Decryption Part Nobody Explains A custom ESP32 build that subscribes to Meshtastic's encrypted MQTT topic, decrypts packets on the fly, and scrolls messages across a WS2812B 8x32 LED panel. Full build guide: parts, wiring, PlatformIO flashing from scratch, and MQTT setup.
3D Printing Less Than a Week and the Warranty Is Already Gone: Installing ZMOD on the AD5X I had the AD5X for less than a week. I hadn't done a second print yet. And I was already on GitHub reading about ZMOD. ZMOD is a community firmware mod for the Flashforge AD5X. It replaces the stock firmware with something you can actually get into: SSH
