Cool projects
This is an unsorted list of projects that really cool and neat.
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- someone took some old Chromebooks, stripped them down and built a cluster. I love this kind of jank!
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TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch.
- someone took a classic Casio F-91W and modified it so that it can be used as a 2FA device.
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Framework Cyberdeck - DIY Portable PC
- custom build that incorporates a Framework laptop motherboard. And it’s open source!
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- custom mod for the PS2 slim, looks absolutely lovely.
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Thin Clients - www.parkytowers.me.uk
- a great repository of information about all sorts of thin clients, their capabilities and alternative uses for them, such as repurposing them to be a small and efficient home server
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- hardware project that allows you to replace the insides of a PlayStation Portable with a Raspberry Pi. Surprisingly functional, slick and reversible. Here’s also a Macho Nacho guide of this project.
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Water cooling is overkill for Pi 5
- Jeff Geerling tries a water cooler on a Raspberry Pi 5 and while the product isn’t great, I would not mind seeing something like this used in a cluster of Pi-s. Not for practical reasons, but because it would look so cool.
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- An absolute madlad turned an unsuspecting TP-Link router into an actual gaming router. You know, the kind that can play GTA Vice City?
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I made a new backplane for my Terramaster F2-221 NAS
- I had the same NAS at one point and I simply added an USB SSD to the inside, but the author went one step further and designed a custom PCB to fit an NVMe SSD inside the NAS.
Useful 3D printable designs:
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2.5mm Drive Enclosure for Shucked WD Elements Controller Board
- makes it possible to use 2.5" drives with the leftovers of a WD Elements external hard drive after you’ve taken out the HDD and used it as an internal drive.
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- makes it easy to attach two 2.5" SATA HDD/SSD to a ZimaBoard.