Documenting my rabbitholes

  • Fix: Prolific PL2303 Windows 10/11

    Fix: Prolific PL2303 Windows 10/11

    The people at Prolific obviously want to sell new hardware, so they decided to cripple the PL2303 USB to serial adapter cable by disabling it with new drivers. When installing this cable, you’ll find that it doesn’t work, and if you look it up in Device Manager, you see the following device: PL2303HXA PHASED OUT…

  • How to connect your Psion or Palm PDA to the internet in 2024

    How to connect your Psion or Palm PDA to the internet in 2024

    I wanted to connect my Psion 5mx to the internet without using a computer. I have used an old Nokia with IR port, but that needed a data sim card, so not an ideal solution. I was looking for a solution using a Raspberry Pi as a modem. I found several tutorials online, but I…

  • How to create real color Game Boy Camera photos

    How to create real color Game Boy Camera photos

    Shortly after I wrote on this site how you can create fake Game Boy photo’s, I finally got the link cable I needed and made an Arduino based printer emulator to get my photo’s to my Mac. Of course I started shooting a lot of photo’s (and made a dedicated instagram account) in black and…

  • Generate a fake Gameboy Camera Photo

    Generate a fake Gameboy Camera Photo

    Learn how to create a gameboy camera photo without an actual gameboy camera.

  • Best console quality iPad Pro games

    Best console quality iPad Pro games

    A curated list of great console-quality iPad Pro games without In-App-Purchases

  • Learning Blender

    Learning Blender

    Although I haven’t been working in the field for the last 12 years, I actually graduated from TU Delft as an Industrial Design Engineer. Mainly the 3D CG work always interested me, but I never took the time to do something with it and the software needed always has been very expensive. And there was…

  • Install WD Blue M.2 SSD into MacBook Air mid 2012

    Install WD Blue M.2 SSD into MacBook Air mid 2012

    The MacBook Air mid 2012 is still a very capable notebook for everyday use. When my wife ordered one in 2012, we thought that a 120GB SSD would suffice, but times have changed and so has the size of IE. digital photo’s. Time to upgrade the SSD! I got my hands on a brand new…

  • Download all files from Blackvue dashcam to your Synology over Wifi

    Download all files from Blackvue dashcam to your Synology over Wifi

    To archive all files from your Blackvue cloud-enabled dashcam to your Synology NAS without removing your SD card, simply do the following: 1. Connect your Blackvue dashcam to your local network using its cloud feature. 2. Find the IP of your Blackvue dashcam by checking the dhcp settings from your router, or by using an app…

  • Inimini H 4″ 180mm race quadcopter

    Inimini H 4″ 180mm race quadcopter

    Hoeveel fun kun je hebben? Een 180mm Inimini H frame van dquad met 4 Tiger 2300kv 1806 motoren en 20A Littlebee ESC’s. Absoluut een aanrader! Meer info op www.fpv-racing.nl.  

  • Elegant iPhone 6 Plus dock for 3D Printing

    Elegant iPhone 6 Plus dock for 3D Printing

    Because I couldn’t really find a design I liked on Thingiverse, i decided to design my own. I designed it with Colorfabb Woodfill – a wood like material – in mind, because since I finally got it to print, it’s by far my favorite material to print with. Surfaces get really smooth, and if you…

  • Printing with Colorfabb Woodfill on an Ultimaker 2

    Printing with Colorfabb Woodfill on an Ultimaker 2

    When I ordered my Ultimaker 2, I was very excited about all the special filaments out there. Woodfill was my favorite. There was only one issue: It didn’t print. It got stuck in the nozzle every single time. I used the profile found on the colorfabb website, tweaked every single aspect of it but it simply…

  • Routes maken voor Tomtom Rider op een Mac

    Routes maken voor Tomtom Rider op een Mac

    Voor Mac gebruikers is het nog een hele toer om een route te maken voor de Tomtom Rider (Speciale Tomtom voor op de motor). Er bestaat wel een bookmarklet voor Google Maps om een GPX bestand te exporteren van een route, maar bij mij deed die helemaal niets. Ook kun je op diverse manieren van…