Continuing on from my previous post about Meshtastic, I started Meshing around (see what I did there?) with the LILYGO T3 S3 V1.3.
NOTE: I received this product for free (minus shipping) from LILYGO in exchange for feedback.
Why this one?
As mentioned in the previous post, I have a T-Dec...
Introduction to Meshtastic
Because ACARS and ADS-B wasn't enough tinkering with electromagnetic emissions, I've gotten into Meshtastic. That link should cover the basics but for a TL;DR, Meshtastic is a standard that uses unlicensed frequencies (915MHz in the USA, 868MHz in Europe, and others)...
Since my last post about picking up ACARS messages I've made more progress, enough to warrant another post! Let's dig in.
ACARS
Since last post, I've added 2 more receivers - one more for ACARS and one for VDLM2. It was pretty easy to add the additional containers. This increased spectrum co...
I've been interested in @ACARSDrama on Mastodon for a while and I sent a message to @SecureOwl (Mike, the operator) offering to help pick up messages to feed the bot if he ever went in that direction. He later invited me to help out and put out a public invitation and thus began my ACARS/VDL2/SD...
Information and Background
(Skip to the "How-to" section if you're already familiar with these computers)
Dell 7010 Plus is a computers with 13th gen Intel processor that comes in a very small form factor and are quite easy to work on, with a max of 64GB of DDR5 RAM (possibly 128GB, but 64GB S...
Background and motivation
Many people use tools like Terraform, Ansible, custom boot scripts and more to provision and maintain their Kubernetes nodes. These tools are powerful but they do have a downside of only partially achieving what should be the ultimate goal: declarative configuration wit...
Background
I recently decided to try out Ubiquiti after hearing many of my friends and people on social media (Discord especially) speak highly of their experience. On a previous project for replacing my NAS, I did all my own research, bought an Asustor NAS, ended up making a lot of mistakes and...
