Category: hardware

  • Meshtastic solar repeater and client node setup

    ** this post is under construction ** == Repeater setup == Requisites: – solar charged– battery powered– low temp Li-ion charge cutoff– low power– no gps module due to fixed location– advantageous location– reliable/durable– medium gain antenna Materials: Soldering iron. Whatever you have should work, no fancy soldering required Heatshrink tubing https://www.amazon.com/Wirefy-180-Heat-Shrink-Tubing/dp/B084GDLSCK/ RAKwireless WisBlock Meshtastic…

  • Flashing om1p with stock openwrt

    I have many open-mesh OM1P units laying around from failed wireless projects. Needless to say I’m not a big fan of open-mesh and have some other projects in mind for this hardware. It was a painful process but well worth it. Now I have nice little OpenWRT units for any hacking pleasure. I have made…

  • Flashing a BIOS update using only free tools (FreeDOS, etc)

    The wonderful world of motherboard BIOS updates, is still old fashioned. Updates are often still built for Microsoft Windows environments. Those of us who don’t have MS Windows, DOS, a floppy drive, an install of Windows 98 to create a bootable floppy, or cheesy Pâté for that matter ….. Here is a way one can…

  • Transition away from MBR to GPT booting

    Recently, I was installing debian on a new server and grub2 would not install gave me this error: “This GPT partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won’t be possible! grub-setup: error: Embedding is not possible, but this is required when the root device is on a RAID array or LVM volume.” Of course,…