Aaron S. Jackson - Blog
This blog is primarily a dumping ground of unfinished projects. Feel free to browse. Unless otherwise stated, assume code is MIT licensed. Feedback is welcome by email.
2024
- 21 Dec What I've done this year personal
- 30 Nov Uses This personal
- 4 Nov Jodrell Bank travel
- 18 Oct Antenna Rotator... and Satellite Dishes radio
- 7 Oct Antenna Rotator radio
- 19 Sep Meshtastic radio
- 3 Jun EMF Camp 2024 emfcamp
- 26 May Another LED Matrix Display electronics
- 30 Mar Adafruit Feather 32u4 LoRa (RFM69) as a Pager Transmitter radio
- 2 Mar Train Departures Board at Nottingham Hackspace electronics
2023
- 25 Nov A trip to Jodrell Bank travel
- 26 Oct RSECon 23 conference
- 26 Oct A Nixie Clock electronics
- 31 Jul Nottingham Industrial Museum museum
- 9 Jul A more permanent VAX 4000 power supply oldcomputers
- 14 Mar Trip to Sweden travel
- 1 Mar IPv6 with Zen CityFibre and an EdgeRouter networking
- 4 Feb Nottingham Lightnight 2023 💡 photos
- 9 Jan A LED matrix clock, and cat flap monitoring, with ESPHome hacks
2022
- 29 Dec Hacking a doorbell (adding WiFi) 🔔 hacks
- 18 Aug Zen CityFibre / EdgeRouter computing
- 14 Aug Learning about milling hackspace
- 9 Aug Levoit Air Purifier with Home Assistant hacks
- 28 Jul Growing Elm Oyster Mushrooms mushrooms
- 10 Jul Tektronix 604 electronics
- 11 Jun Joining Nottingham Hackspace (and making something) hackspace
- 6 Jun EMF Camp 2022 emfcamp
- 21 May e-ink display for Home Assistant & Grafana electronics
- 22 Mar Improving my desk situation home
- 19 Mar Making some progress with the cabling computing
- 21 Feb Notes to myself about YubiKeys computing
- 9 Jan Going a bit crazy with Home Assistant and Zigbee computing
2021
- 23 Oct A Continuous Integration Pipeline for the PDP-11 (2.11BSD) oldcomputers
- 7 Oct The Surly Disc Trucker cycling
- 14 Oct Writing Drivers for 2.11BSD oldcomputers
- 25 Sep Fixing the PDP-11 Power Supply (again) oldcomputers
- 22 Aug Work In Progress - Rewiring my home network 😲 computing
- 15 Aug Dynamic DNS Updates with Terraform computing
- 15 Aug Migrating a Virtual Machine from Scaleway to Proxmox computing
- 7 Aug Packer with proxmox-clone computers
- 6 Jun An update, I guess personal
- 8 Apr Getting to Wales cycling
2020
- 19 Dec RL02 - A Disk Pack of Worms (Work in Progress) oldcomputers
- 26 Nov Playing with a Photomultiplier Tube electronics
- 14 Sep DEC VAX 4000-300 up and running oldcomputers
- 4 Sep Standing Desks and Other Office Related Stuff (oh, and I got a new bike) personal
- 6 Jul Thinking about bikepacking cycling
- 17 May 12AX7 Pre-amp build electronics
- 3 May Quadrature Amplitude Modulation in MATLAB rf
- 10 Apr Loftboratory April 2020 Status loftboratory
- 10 Apr Garmin Varia UT800 cycling
- 6 Apr VT220 Debugging (again...) electronics
- 4 Apr Photos from March 2020 photos
- 3 Apr Slurm and Hardware Accelerated OpenGL computing
- 14 Mar Garmin 130 Edge cycling
- 21 Jan I switched to clipless pedals cycling
2019
- 14 Dec Graduation No. 2 personal
- 30 Nov Goodbye escher, thanks for all the mail computers
- 13 Sep Photos of RCA AR88 radio
- 10 Sep Leak Stereo 20 Restoration electronics
- 3 Sep Crosstour CT7000 RTSP WiFi hacks
- 28 Aug Portable HF Bag radio
- 19 Aug Going Portable with Ham Radio radio
- 4 Aug History of Nottingham University [Amateur] Radio Society radio
- 27 Jul Let the brewing begin beer
- 5 Jul PhD Viva academia
- 20 Jun WEFax and HF Radio Stuff radio
- 10 Jun 9:1 Unun radio
- 25 May A Visit to National Museum of Computing oldcomputers
- 17 May A nice "Personal Day" personal
- 31 Mar I'm Dill, the dog. personal
- 16 Mar Gretsch G5622T music
- 24 Feb Arduino home power monitor electronics
- 12 Feb ZFS (on Linux) Quotas over NFS hacks
- 3 Feb Uhoh, fat again personal
2018
- 8 Dec Distributed Learning in PyTorch computervision
- 25 Nov New ZFS Storage for the Computer Vision Lab computers
- 8 Nov Hyperparameter Optimisation with Slurm deeplearning
- 16 Sep ECCV 2018, Munich, Germany and Deutsches Museum computervision
- 25 Aug I passed my foundation radio exam! radio
- 25 Jul Problems with PCIe switching computers
- 22 Jul Trying Strava cycling
- 24 Jun I built a curve tracer electronics
- 4 Jun VAX 4000 Power Supply oldcomputers
- 29 May HiFiBerry with PulseAudio over Network audio
- 24 May Inside the NAD C 338 audio
- 22 May NAD C 338 audio
- 3 Apr GPIB to USB Adapter electronics
- 29 Mar Have I found the problem with my RL02 Drives? oldcomputers
- 29 Mar New Osmelloscope (... oscilloscope) Tek TDS420A electronics
- 17 Mar RL02 Progress oldcomputers
- 19 Feb Cleaning/Repairing Crashed RL02 Heads oldcomputers
- 18 Feb Lofboratory Status Feb 2018 oldcomputers
- 15 Feb Playing with Linux on AlterPath ACS, in the hope of replacing OpenSSHd (Part 1) hacks
- 11 Feb AlterPatch ACS Console Server networking
- 4 Feb Bittersweet Victory bnl
2017
- 21 Dec A bit more RL02 progress oldcomputers
- 17 Dec RX02 Drives are working! Say hello to RT-11 oldcomputers
- 17 Dec RL02 Sadness oldcomputers
- 9 Dec Making progress with the RX02 drive oldcomputers
- 9 Dec I got a logic analyzer personal
- 25 Nov WiFi Rain Meter hacks
- 14 Nov Finally started insulating the loft house
- 10 Nov Making progress with RL02 Drives oldcomputers
- 5 Nov RL02 Spinup Failure oldcomputers
- 2 Nov RL02 debugging oldcomputers
- 31 Oct More Debugging of the PDP-11 H7861 PSU (I fixed it!) oldcomputers
- 29 Oct Mystery PDP-11 oldcomputers
- 29 Oct ICCV 2017, Venice computervision
- 8 Oct Thinking about audio audio
- 30 Sep Rex configuration management linux
- 24 Sep The PDP-11 is here oldcomputers
- 17 Sep Tiring week personal
- 11 Sep Office365 rant
- 27 Aug Escher has a case computers
- 26 Aug More Complexity - dhcpd networking
- 25 Aug Potato Harvest gardening
- 19 Aug Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire personal
- 17 Aug Playing around with MRTG networking
- 16 Aug Automatic reverse DNS zonefile generation networking
- 4 Aug I have a PDP-11! oldcomputers
- 2 Aug Email Auto Responder - inotifywait linux
- 24 Jul RX02 8in Floppies oldcomputers
- 18 Jul UoN Computer Science turns 30 oldcomputers
- 17 Jul The night before the event (2.11BSD UNIX Repair) oldcomputers
- 16 Jul (Even More) Fun with bnl oldcomputers
- 15 Jul (More) Fun with bnl oldcomputers
- 12 Jul Cleaning up my Emacs config emacs
- 11 Jul Dilbert went for a wander cats
- 5 Jul Blocking countries with pf openbsd
- 2 Jul Plant Update gardening
- 26 Jun I bought a Camera photos
- 24 Jun RAID 6 mdadm + NFS sync/async linux
- 17 Jun Brian Kernighan personal
- 14 Jun Fun with RL02 Drives oldcomputers
- 31 May ThinkPad X220 Replacement Battery laptop
- 26 May PDP-11 leads oldcomputers
- 19 May Growing Food (Poorly) gardening
- 16 May iD Mobile misc
- 6 May VT220 Restoration (Part 2) oldcomputers
- 3 May Extreme Spam Filtering linux
- 29 Apr VT220 Restoration oldcomputers
- 27 Apr Smart Meter house
- 14 Apr COMPUTER MUSEUM! travel
- 29 Mar Baked Beans food
- 26 Mar The Search For The Perfect UMPC linux
- 23 Mar Speaking email notifications linux
- 22 Mar Fun with Environment Modules linux
- 19 Feb Remembering Birthdays hacks
- 26 Jan Obtaining free Cisco IOS Updates networking
- 25 Jan 1-Wire bus for temperature logging hacks
- 23 Jan Cisco Switch Graphing networking
- 21 Jan I bought a new bike cycling
- 3 Jan Bike needs repairing, but is it worth it? cycling
2016
- 31 Dec We finally furnished the lounge personal
- 26 Dec Goodbye Facebook personal
- 22 Dec Dirty Load Balancing networking
- 18 Dec Round Two: Fish Numbers dumb
- 16 Nov Torch on GCC 6.2 (Fedora 24) linux
- 15 Nov Insulating and Boarding the loft... Planning, no progress house
- 5 Nov My Stew - Recipe food
- 3 Nov Calculating Projection Matrices for MATLAB/Simulink Virtual Reality Toolbox math
- 10 Oct ECCV 2016, Amsterdam computervision
- 6 Oct Sun Blade 150 oldcomputers
- 28 Sep SSSD simple_allow_users Management Script linux
- 17 Sep New Things! personal
- 17 Sep Cats are stupid cats
- 22 Aug No-NAT ISP Comparison Chart networking
- 17 Aug VAXstation 3100/M76 Crashing when Warm oldcomputers
- 10 Aug WWAN Setup laptop
- 10 Aug Planting & Harvesting Plan gardening
- 6 Aug Thinking about Home Automation home-automation
- 5 Aug Exploring WWAN Options on ThinkPad X220 laptop
- 14 Jul OpenBSD on a VAXstation 3100 M76 oldcomputers
- 22 Jun VT420 Meta (Alt) Key hacks
- 30 May Found a HP 712/60 oldcomputers
- 27 May GNU Screen. My Personal Reference. linux
- 22 May Okay, DIY Oral Irrigator personal
- 20 May Glorious VT420 terminal
- 8 Apr Glorious X220 laptop
- 28 Mar First RTTY Reception radio
- 21 Mar Maildir Notifications hacks
- 15 Mar Syntax Highlighting in Caffe Prototxt on Emacs emacs
- 3 Feb Monthly Review: January 2016 quantified
- 3 Jan 2015 in Pictures personal
- 2 Jan Räksmörgås food
- 1 Jan Monthly Review: December 2015 quantified
- 1 Jan Bucketlist for 2016 personal
2015
- 22 Dec Caffe Logging and Loss Plotting caffe
- 1 Dec Monthly Review: November 2015 quantified
- 25 Nov Working Remotely linux
- 1 Nov Monthly Review: October 2015 quantified
- 23 Oct Quick Update personal
- 8 Oct Monthly Review: September 2015 quantified
- 22 Sep Moving to Nottingham personal
- 19 Sep Matlab Tinycode matlab
- 17 Sep Org-Mode Clock In and Clock Out emacs
- 10 Sep Swedish Recap #1 - General Phrases swedish
- 8 Sep Dell XPS 13 (2015) Display Switch on Linux hacks
- 8 Sep Org-Mode Tag Index (for blogging!) emacs
- 7 Sep Monthly Review: August 2015 quantified
- 7 Sep How My org-mode Blog Works emacs
- 6 Sep A Blog Post personal