Projects

May 2025

Turn a cheap DVB-T USB stick and €20 wireless sensors into a reliable, real-time climate monitoring system for your entire house. This guide walks you through setting up tfrec on Linux, collecting temperature and humidity data over 868 MHz, and integrating it seamlessly into OpenHAB, Home Assistant, or any MQTT-capable platform. No cloud, no vendor lock-in—just efficient, low-cost data from every room.

April 2025

When the network drops, regimes tighten their grip or a storm wipes out the fibre cabinet, uninhibited access to knowledge should not vanish with the signal. Kiwix lets you compress the cultural treasure-trove of Wikipedia — and thousands of other open resources — into a handful of ZIM files you can carry on a USB stick.

March 2025

Backups are essential – yet many solutions are bloated, expensive, or unnecessarily complicated. But there’s a simpler way: With PowerShell and Robocopy, you can create an automated, rsync-like mirror backup that runs reliably in the background, securing your most important data – all without third-party software!

October 2024

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.

September 2024

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.

August 2024

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.

July 2024

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.

August 2023

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.