Playin' around with Electronics and Computers

Month: March 2019

Le Potato Media Center & German IPTV Re-Revisited

March 23rd, 2019Documentation, Le Potato, Media Center, Raspberry Pi, Software, Tutorial23 Comments

The comment by Argus Nymus on my Media Center for German IPTV post made it clear that my approach with playlist filtering via web proxy was way too overengineered. For several reasons I needed to rebuild my media center anyhow, so it was time to simplify my approch, which I describe in some detail here.

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Case for MP1584 Based Step-Down Converter Board with USB Port

March 6th, 20193D printing, DIY, DocumentationNo Comments

This post is to share my self-made 3D printed housing for a 5V USB voltage converter. Since the used converter board is quite common, I guess others may profit from this design.

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I make use of the following free and mostly open source software and services to create content for this blog and in my projects (this list will be notoriously incomplete – sorry to everyone I forgot…). Thanks a lot to all the contributors!

Antispam Bee
Arduino IDE, libraries and board definitions
Audacity
Beautiful Soup
Circuit Board image by Flash Alexander (Background image)
Cura
curl
Disable XML-RPC
Docker and some ready made containers
Easy Table of Contents
Enable Media Replace
Fixed Widget
Fritzing
Fusion 360
Gimp
Greenshot
Inkscape
IrfanView
KiCad
Kodi/LibreELEC/CoreELEC/xbian and many addons
Limit Login Attempts Reloaded
Linux/Debian/Raspbian
(and many, many distro packages)
lxml
Maperitive and processed SRTM elevation data
Mobile Atlas Creator (MOBAC)
and many map services by the EU governments
NEdit
Notepad++
OpenStreetMap
openv
OruxMaps
Osmosis
PuTTY
Prusa Slicer
Python and many libraries
Rufus
Q2W3 Fixed Widget
Scribus
TinyMCE
tvheadend
Urvanov Syntax Highlighter which is a fork/revival of the Crayon Syntax Highlighter
Widget Logic
Win32DiskImager
WinSCP
WordPress (obviously…)
WP GDPR compliance, which is now Cookie Information | Free WP GDPR Consent Plugin
WPS Hide Login
Xming
Zakra WordPress theme

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I am in no way dependent, paid or influenced by any product and/or software vendors, hardware distributors etc. that I mention in the articles or show images of, unless explicitly stated. I strongly encourage the reader to compare prices, products and software on his or her own in order to find the best product yourself.