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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!

Mission-Tags

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

The Illuminator - A LED Light built from trash

Building things can be a lot of fun. Even more so, if the parts you use are things, that other people threw away. A while ago, the workbench needed a more appropriate lighting and 3 Luxeon 1W LEDs were lying around in the MISC box, other parts were collected from trash found in containers.

[Illuminator in Low-Power mode (Red - 0.5W)]

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2012-07-06 06:18 · chrono
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Hacking devices always comes with the risk of breaking them in the process, which makes it often undesirable to hack on something, when you know, that you only have one device you may need for production purposes. Luckily, cosmo had a look at the Apollo-NG Wishlist and donated one more TL-MR3020 for the cause and as a result, it was pretty easy to figure out how to connect an external antenna to the TL-MR3020.

Details about the hack can be found on the Argus Project page

Thank you cosmo :)

2012-07-04 09:32 · chrono
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Intelligent Turn Signal

While watching some fast cars on a multi-lane street from above today, one observation came up with repetition: Fast movers, that wanted to overtake slow movers (on the right line) almost never used their turn signal (blinker) to indicate their intention to move to the left lane and afterwards to move back to the right lane. Why is that and how could that be helped?

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2012-04-26 07:44 · chrono
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