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TrainWreck Rockette: 1 Redesigned
A redesign-focused start to the TrainWreck Rockette project, built around Vox AC30 roots and Johannes's own preferred twists.
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Custom DDC: 2 Bluetooth & auto switching
Custom DDC expands with Bluetooth and automatic switching, aiming for cleaner hi-fi streaming without manual input juggling.
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Silence Your Guitar Amp: Variable Voltage Regulator
A variable voltage regulator lets a loud tube guitar amp keep more of its core feel while behaving better at home volumes.
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PC Water Cooling: Maintenance
PC water cooling can pay off in noise and performance, but this maintenance pass shows what growth and clogging eventually look like.
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Homelab: 2 Tiny 24 Core virtualization Computation with hacked hardware
A compact homelab build using repurposed server CPUs and hacked hardware to create a tiny 24-core virtualization machine.
Homelab
A running series covering firewall experiments, virtualization hardware, mini-servers, and the evolution toward a quieter, apartment-friendly homelab setup.
Homelab: 1 25 Year old computer as a firewall: 60Mbps throughput
17 November 2021
If you have spend some time around a computer interested individual you may at one time or another have come across the suggestion that a good use for an old computer is as a firewall and router around your home. The argument…
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Homelab: 2 Tiny 24 Core virtualization Computation with hacked hardware
17 November 2021
For some time a good way to get cheap and powerful computers, outside of cutting edge gaming or single-core heft, have been to get used server CPU's. There is even a interesting hardware hacking community around this practice coming out of China,…
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Homelab: 3 Turning laptops into mini-servers
4 October 2022
One of the most common e-waste sources out there is laptops, slower than other computers and often not upgradable, lacking ability to change peripherals, like screens. A sad fact as the vast majority of people do rarely use the full potential of…
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Homelab: 4 Family & apartment friendly server cabinet
17 October 2022
Finding ways to live with an interest in computers can be a challenge. That is having half a dozen computers running 24/7 is not something easily manageable, even though being tiny and near silent, the space required and mess is additive. This…
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