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Saving E-waste one Chromebook at a time

Saving E-waste one Chromebook at a time

Luis RodriguezOct 20, 20234 min read

I’m one of those people who loves stopping by my local pawn shop to score some sick deals on used electronics. Often, I come across devices that the shop can’t get rid of due to them being locked with forgotten…

The portable Linux terminal is now transparent!

The portable Linux terminal is now transparent!

Luis RodriguezAug 26, 20231 min read

Continuing my quest to have all my gadgets transparent, I’ve tried my hand at printing PETG to update the look of my portable Linux terminal. While it isn’t perfect, It does feel a lot better than the black-painted case I…

Organizing our Pis

Organizing our Pis

Luis RodriguezAug 3, 20231 min read

Looking for a solution that would clean up our server room’s various Pis, I came across the UCTRONICS rack-mountable solution for Raspberry Pi. It features four slots for Raspberry Pi 4. Other than moving all external ports/slots to the front…

The excitement of the Beepberry

The excitement of the Beepberry

Luis RodriguezJul 30, 20231 min read

When I saw this thing on Jeff Geerling’s blog I knew I had to have it. As he mentioned in his blog post, this thing has a super crisp low-power LCD display and a backlit Blackberry keyboard that I find…

Door of locking

Door of locking

Luis RodriguezJul 23, 20231 min read

Before moving in to our new office, we in IT needed to setup user pin numbers for our front door lock. We quickly found that the battery that keeps it running was dead. It was a five cell 7.5v battery.…