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Pedal Progression: 3 Zendrive
Pedal Progression moves on to a Hermida Zendrive rebuild, fixing old enclosure mistakes while keeping the fuller overdrive voice intact.
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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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Guitar Rebuild: 1 Onboard preamps & hardware
A Japanese 1982 Matsumoku guitar becomes the basis for a rebuild focused on onboard preamps, hardware, and a heavier final voice.
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Easy Naim Hi-Fi power amp upgrades
A straightforward set of component upgrades that can noticeably improve older Naim power amps and similar hi-fi amplifiers.
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Restomod Car: 2 Brakes and Suspension
Restomod Car moves on to brakes and suspension, with oversized hardware, rust work, and stubborn front-end teardown.
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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