Autor: feedc0de
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Adding some headlights to my bobbycar
Using a telegram bot for free amazon products I was able to get my hands on a free led spot light. OrderMania or CollectMania on telegram allows you to apply for a position for free products, you have to make your amazon profile public readable and provide them a link to it. If you have…
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Getting my first real 19″ server rack
Since I moved into my new flat all of my server infrastructure was in the small storage room located in my kitchen. The main problem is that the room was actually planed for storing food and drinks and all the devices produce so much heat that for example chocolate is melting! Also all the fans…
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Moving to my last flat ever
I have once again moved all of my server infrastructure to a new flat. But this will be my last flat moving ever. I bought this flat! It’s mine now. The storage room in the kitchen already has a very fitting IKEA Lackrack shaft: Preparing WiFi at the car One of my main problems is…
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Let’s build a new custom battery pack for the new bobbycar 2.0
My black motorized bobbycar chassis broke completely apart in Augarten (Graz) right before we wanted to head off to the hungarian hacker camp Camp++. I already had a red bobbyquad chassis laying around and most of the parts could easily be transplated. Also the colorful bobbyquad chassis were not produced for a long time already…
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Bobbycar ride: Putting speakers on trailers for mobile raves
Getting some music into the streets of Graz was one of our top priorities during the pandemic. Clubs were closed, parties and raves were shutdown and time was boring. version 1 The first rideout was done using an old moldy speaker, that was laying around in the hackerspace. It really was hazardous to health, so…
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Forming a storage cluster while moving into another new flat
I am once again moving into a new flat. I have setup a special renting contract for only 6 months (which is very hard to do in austria and probably illegal). I do not plan to stay in this small flat for any longer as the flat that I have already bought is being finished…
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Bobbycar ride: Wood deliveries
This week there have been 2 shorter rides with the large trailer to deliver some wood! Wood delivery 1 Wood delivery 2
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Trying to balance the unbalanced battery pack of the bobbycar
Since I started charging my bobbycar with 2 or up to 3 paralell chargers (40A peak sometimes) my battery started to get a little damaged. Some cells get empty or full much quicker then the rest of the cells. Which usually cuts off charging or discharging way earlier which causes the bobbycar to stop usually…
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Using MQTT enabled ceiling lights for raves
The hackerspace has some ceiling lights which are connected to the wireless network and are controllable via MQTT. Brightness and colors can be updated. I started writing a little tool that allows us to synchronize light shows to beats and clock intervals. It’s based on C++ and Qt https://github.com/0xFEEDC0DE64/r3ctl
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Bobbycar ride: Getting energy drinks from citypark
We plan to do a longer ride to the shopping centre citypark because Spar has a nice offer for 50% off on energy drinks. We will use the bobbycar trailer to transport the cans to our headquarters 🙂 First of all lets charge the bobbycar to 100% to not run out of energy: The pallets…