Tag: Hardware

All the articles with the tag "Hardware".

• A Beginner's Course in Photographic Lens Optical Design: From Aberrations and Classic Lens Groups to Computational Optics

  9 Jun, 2026

  From paraxial ideals and Seidel aberrations to classic lens groups like the Cooke Triplet, Double Gauss, telephoto and retrofocus, then on to aspherics, special glass, MTF and computational optics — a beginner's course that threads photographic lens design into one coherent picture.

• Idle Router + Xiaomi Speaker: Hardcore Guide to Low-Cost LAN AirPlay 2 Audio Bridging

  22 Mar, 2026

  A practical guide and troubleshooting record on using an idle OpenWrt/ImmortalWrt router to build a low-latency AirPlay 2 receiver for the Xiaomi Smart Speaker Pro.

• AI Secondary Screen (Part 2): Building a Personalized Multi-Source News Recommendation Feed with LLMs

  10 Feb, 2026

  A practical project demonstrating how to build a personalized news recommendation system using LLMs.

• AI Secondary Display (Part 1): Reviving a Forgotten Kindle, Crafting an Elegant E-Ink Desktop Dashboard

  10 Feb, 2026

  Transform a dust-gathering Kindle Oasis 2 into an elegant desktop E-Ink secondary display.

• Tinkering with the Cudy TR3000 and ImmortalWrt

  24 Jun, 2025

  How to set up ImmortalWrt on the Cudy TR3000 router.

• From Snail NAS to a Proper Homelab: A Tech Enthusiast's Upgrade Journey

  17 Jan, 2024

  How my homelab evolved.