In my previous blog post I talked about how I bought a Blu-ray drive and a couple of M-Discs to use it for long-term archival backups. Shortly after that I had the idea to use these as a last-resort, decentralized backup. The Concept Many people give copies of their house or apartment keys to good […]
In a recent Youtube video by Rick Beato he showed all computer and audio recording and playback equipment he has accumulated over the many years he worked as an audio professional. He sang the praises of physical formats and owning music and there are many points that I 100% agree with. He also showed a […]
Over the years, I’ve done the odd woodworking project, like building a guitar speaker cabinet or putting some shelves on the wall. I’ve used wood glue before, and I have (had) an ever-growing collection of all kinds of wood screws in my toolbox, mostly leftovers from previous small wood-related tasks. Up until a few months […]
After my recent post I did not stop tinkering and exploring. To my own surprise it didn’t take long to come across significant improvements to my toolchain. Someone contacted me on mastodon shortly after and said that a friend of his had also recently gotten into SDRs and ADS-B and decided to write his on […]
For a while I was somewhat interested in playing around with a Software Defined Radio (SDR). Recently I bought myself an entry level SDR and started exploring. One of the first things I was interested in was receiving and tracking ADS-B data. This is a specific radio transmission used by aircraft to broadcast positional data, […]