Introduction: For those unaware of the event, CeBIT is held annually on the Hanover fairground. For an idea of scale, the exhibition area roughly covers 450.000m2 and the five day event attracted over 300.000 visitors this year. For those of you who know the IP EXPO in London, imagine 15+ halls like it and multiply […]
CeBIT 2013 – Trends and Impressions Read More »
1. Introduction: Since I’ve just upgraded the NAS I’ve ended up with a spare Mini-ITX Atom board. Perfect timing to replace the old Smoothwall gateway and finally eradicate the last 32bit machine I’ve got running 🙂 I’ve been using Smoothwall since 2007 now, my first box was based on a P3 1Ghz but quickly replaced
How to build a Smoothwall Gateway the hard way (Dual Core/Dual Gigabit/Mini-ITX) Read More »
Here was me thinking that it would be a good idea to finally replace my old laptop based Smoothwall setup with a nice mini-itx one… The mini-itx board in question is a Intel D945GCLF2 and has been working hard over the past few years as my home NAS. Since I just swapped it for a Gigabyte GA-D525TUD to
Intel D945GCLF2 vs GPT and Smoothwall 3.0 SP3 Read More »
Introduction: OS X Mountain Lion just popped up in the App Store so I could not resist to download it at work where it takes 30 minutes compared to several hours back home. As with Lion the setup is handled through an installer which one get’s (after appropriate payment obviously) through the App Store. The
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Introduction: 3D printers have taken off over the last couple of years and especially the last half year with more and more models pushing onto the market and competing in particular for the lower budget end of the scale. High quality 3D printing, dual colour printing and sizes beyond 10cm are still reserved for the
Introduction: I’ve always had a thing for 3D pictures and movies hence my recent acquisition of a HTC EVO 3D. It’s the US Sprint version hence only works on Wifi in this coutry due to the lack of a LTE network. But since I simply want to use it as a 3D camera it was
Modifying a SLR tripod for the HTC EVO 3D Read More »
I like to build stuff so I decided to get a blog and share it with the world! I’m currently playing around with Arduino and Raspberry Pi but am very open to everything else.
Welcome to the Make Chronicles Read More »