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Rustic Retreat

Live broadcasts and documentation from a remote tech outpost in rustic Portugal. Sharing off-grid life, the necessary research & development and the pursuit of life, without centralized infrastructure.

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Hot Projects

SEEDStack

SEEDStack - Open 3D printable seed/sprouting systemDIY Food Hacking

UCSSPM

UCSSPM - Unified Clear-Sky Solar Prediction ModelOpen Solar Power

picoReflow

picoReflow - DIY PID Reflow Oven Controller based on RaspberryPiDIY Reflow Soldering

PiGI

PiGI - DIY Geiger Counter based on RaspberryPiRasPi Geiger Counter

DIY ARA-2000

Active Wideband Receiver Antenna for SDR - ARA-2000Wideband Antenna

DSpace

DSPace - Map everythingMap everything!

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3d 3d-printer antenna development diy dspace energy events fabrication felix geiger geigercounter gentoo geo gis gnuradio grc hack hardware lab linux livestream map monitoring odyssey pi picocnc picofab picoprint pigi power printer python radiation radio raspberry receiver research rf robot sdr security sku software solar sponsor test voron wind zephyr

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Apollo-NG Mobile Hackbase

Apollo-NG Hackerspacecraft

Apollo-NG is a mobile, self-sustainable, independent and highly-experimental Hackbase, focused on research, development and usage of next-generation open technology while visiting places without a resident, local Hackerspace and offering other Hackers the opportunity to work together on exciting projects and to share fun, food, tools & resources, knowledge, experience and inspiration.

Latest Mission-Log Entries

Personal Log: Instrumental Flight FTW

Hello H0u5t0n, thanks for giving me a heads-up about the solar eclipse today… NOT.

Watching the Eclipse of 2015-03-20 in Munich through Metric Instrumentation (24h View)

It must have been around 0935, when I couldn't escape the feeling of some environmental anomaly.

The light was just “not right”. I couldn't see the sun, since there was no quick access to southbound vantage points but a glimpse out of the northbound window revealed almost clear, blue sky and the apparent shadow/contrast and sharpness indicated no clouds in between. Yet, somehow, it was as if I was wearing dark sunglasses or as if we were suddenly much farther away from the sun.

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2015-03-20 23:12 · chrono
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3D Printer Hacking - Carbon as a printing bed surface

This is going to be very experimental and sorry for the short notice :) Since we now have a relatively efficient video stream relaying capability thanks to mjpeg-relay and a highly anticipated set of carbon sheets arrived today, it is time to remove the Kapton-Tape from the the 3D printer and replace it with a 0.5 mm carbon sheet. So, if you're interested, put on some music you like and watch the process live on live.

2015-02-12 19:04 · chrono
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Fixes for chrony & RTC on Odroid C1 Linux 3.10.67 (ARMv7)

For a long time, all machines in Apollo-NG's infrastructure use chrony as a replacement for the usual ntpd package. chrony can be compared to ntpd like nginx can be compared to Apache, newer, much more lightweight approach and some additional very nice features. While nginx has replaced most of the Apache installations these days, chrony still isn't adopted as a good alternative by most people yet.

During the NTPD reflection attack time and the mysql/kernel/ntpd leap second bug, it was nice to see how chrony really saved a lot of time and grief by not being affected. It has been working here - and in many other scenarios - absolutely flawlessly until today.

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2015-02-07 17:42 · chrono
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