October 2024
Digitalizing Your VHS Tapes: Preserving Old Memories for the Future
Do you still have old VHS tapes stored away in the basement, full of memories you can't afford to lose? VHS tapes aren't made to last forever. In this article, I’ll show you how to transfer those valuable recordings into the digital world, with practical tips for preserving them.
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September 2024
How to Create and Serve Europe’s Maps with OpenStreetMap
Ready to take your OpenStreetMap skills to the next level? In this project, we walk you through creating a custom tile server for the entire European region—from setting up powerful hardware to generating map tiles and serving them on your own web server.
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August 2024
Airplane Tracking Made Easy: My ADS-B Adventure
Airplanes have always fascinated me, but the ability to receive and track their signals took this fascination to a new level. With a simple DVB-T stick and a bit of DIY enthusiasm, I built my own ADS-B antenna and dove into the exciting world of flight tracking.
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July 2024
High-Precision Time with GPS on a Raspberry Pi and providing it via NTP
Ever wanted to maintain high-precision time in your local network, independently from public NTP servers? Whether for projects like an ADS-B airplane tracker or just to have an ultra-precise time source, setting up a GPS-based NTP server on a Raspberry Pi can be the perfect solution. In this detailed guide, I'll walk you through every step of the process.
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August 2023
Simple UV Monitoring utilizing a SI1145 Sensor, a Raspberry Pi and Weewx
Discover how to augment your Raspberry Pi with cutting-edge UV monitoring. Enhance the accuracy of your weather data through the seamless integration of the SI1145 UV Sensor. Works very well and reliant, just the values have the tendency to be a bit too high. But great value for such a low cost sensor. You can read the detailed guide on the blog of my company.
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