Guides
PXE Booting Raspberry Pis
MicroSD cards can be very unreliable. Lets get rid of them and boot your Raspberry Pi over your network!
Read More...How to Create Custom Domains with PiHole and NGINX Proxy Manager
If you run your own home lab, you know that things can get pretty wild when trying to remember IP addresses and port numbers. There is a way to fix that! In my case, I run multiple services on multiple different machines. Unraid and most of my Docker containers on my Dell PowerEdge server, Home…
Read More...Using DroneCI to Build mkDocs on a Raspberry Pi 4
Deploy a self hosted documentation site using MkDocs, Gitea, Lighttpd, and Drone CI on DietPi.
Read More...Using DietPi to Set Up a Self Hosted Gitea Server
Gitea is an extremely fast, self hosted git server. This guide aims to show you how to install and set up Gitea on DietPi.
Read More...Getting Started with Fusion 360
Fusion 360 (F360) by Autodesk is a very powerful Computer-Aided Design (CAD) that is awesome for beginners to get in to CAD. One of the best things about it is that you can get a “Startup License” (A.K.A. ‘hobbyist license’) for free! Of course, there are limitations: Startup: If your entitlement has been designated as…
Read More...Installing the MKS Gen L with TMC2208 Silent Stepper Motor Driver
Introduction NOTE: This setup is severely outdated. I highly recommend looking for an updated setup. Since I do not own the Ender 3 anymore, I will not be making an updated guide. After watching Teaching Techs video about the replacement board for the or , I was instantly hooked. This board provides many upgrades over…
Read More...Recommended Tools and Prints for Getting in to Electronics
Getting in to a maker scene can be a relatively cheap hobby to get in to. You can do a lot with a few simple tools that are relatively easy to obtain. Some of the items are listed multiple times because they fit in multiple categories. Tools are not listed in any amount of importance.…
Read More...Flashing an Image to a MicroSD Card
In this guide, I’ll be showing you how to flash an image to an SD card using Etcher. The reason we need to do this for a Raspberry Pi is because the Raspberry Pi itself does not contain an operating system. You need to flash a system image to the microSD card for the Pi…
Read More...Correcting Crossed Connections
If you are using a connector system on your projects, a good thing to always check is to make sure that your connections are correctly polarized. The good news is, if your connections are not correct, it is usually very easy to switch them around and fix them. In this guide, I will be using…
Read More...Adding LED Lights to my Ender 3
LED lights are a cheap, easy way to light up your 3D printer. This is a guide of how I added LEDs to the top and under the Bullseye on my Ender 3. The jist of the guide would work for just about any 3D printer though.
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