It’s frankly unacceptable that commercial vendors are still allowed to sell devices that have been flagged as security risks by multiple national cybersecurity agencies. Or maybe it’s time to hold eBay liable for this, hehe.

eBay listing of one of the vulnerable LTE Router models, MR-6400. And there are hundreds more.

Lol. eBay now gets flooded with the vulnerable TP-Link routers. And it’s absolutely outrageous that TP-Link dropped firmware support for some hardware versions after just two years.

Magic smoke ends its reign,
Traces glow and burn,
Only wrong holes remain.

🇭🇺\( o_o)/🇭🇺

The famous Spinal Tap Marshall guitar amp volume knob, set to eleven.

Conveniently pre-drilled magic smoke release speed vents, just in case.

Milled PCB with a dust brush lying on it. The holes are in the wrong places, partly drilled through traces. Nothing too dramatic, but quite annoying after an hour or two of work.

Days since the wrong PCB
drill file was loaded:

0

Blackbird on top of a (sun bleached) green wire fence. Some green leaves in the background. It’s round and

Unusually round and compact blackbird. It’s also less afraid than all the others, curious and picking worms beside you.
The garden bird season is open. 🪶

3D height diagram, cartesian coordinates, showing a height probe of a 80x70mm PCB. With 0.02mm/div for the z-axis, it looks like a mountain. Max height is about 0.14mm at (40,70).

Yo, another perfectly flat PCB =)

PCB actually stands for “Probing the Complete Board”.

Ein Bild der Hafenstadt Wuppertal zur blauen Stunde; roter Sonnenuntergang, die wuppertaltypischen Wolkenkratzer umrunden das Hafenbecken; Lichter scheinen durch die Fenster. Oder so ähnlich.

Wuppertal.

Plant taken out of the pot. Giant white roots bending in circles. The

“In light of the recent events, we regret to inform you that seven points have been deducted from your pro-gardener balance. Thank you for your understanding.” 🌱

Sommerzeit my a$$.

It’s also too dark. #EarthHour :)

IC upside down on a wooden desk. 12 pin WSON package, 0.5mm pitch, with a big 3.0x2.6mm exposed thermal pad in the middle.

0.5mm pitch is okay for a milled PCB, but together with the large thermal pad, soldering is going to be quite challenging without a stencil. Örgs. Maybe I will mill a slot and solder it from the bottom then lol.

CEO bei Dunning-Kruger.

Do not leave your garden tools unattended. 🌱

Two green seed trays on a metal kitchen sink, each with 12 chili babies planted. Two petri dishes with some more of them in the front.

Close up of the chili seedlings in zhe petri dish.

Close up of the seed tray.

Last year, for whatever reason, but most probably my not-so-green thumbs, was a bad year for chilis – on to a new one … 🌱

Desktop in the basement lab. Dark. Two large monitors and a small one below them. The left monitor displays a code editor with an oscilloscope app on top; the right shows a house we built in Terraria. Still in pre-hardmode.

I should be working (on other things besides playing Terraria with $CHILD2; but priorities and all that).

*5000

8 Jahre, 250000km, 2500 Zyklen.
Anfang der Wiche mit Byd gesprochen.

Join the sleeve touching challenge, hehe.

Maybe you‘re holding it wrong :)

Old Weller LR21 soldering iron. Touching the nut of the tip sleeve while it‘s on. Does not smell line chicken. It’s comd.

Can even touch it like this when it’s on.

Branches of a pussy willow. The white of the catnips is visible, but they’re not completely open yet.

Same, but a closer view.

The bee magnet is warming up.

So many bees last year, that the postman refused to pass it. 🌱


A defect washing maschine tilted on its side. View into the bottom opening. Pump removed.

Close up of the removed lye pump. Two copper coils and a lot of plastic.

The pump taken apart.

The parts you usually shall not disassemble. The spindle removed from its (theoretically sealed and waterproof) housing. Nothing else but a cylindrical magnet on an axle. Impeller at the end.

Finally weekend \o/
The weekend:

Du könntest dir den Spaß erlauben, ihm den Unterschied zwischen verbieten und verbitten zu erklären. Dann Ende Freundschaft Flasche leer und einseitiger Bluthochdruck.

Several bunches of snowdrops between light brown leaves. Nothing spectacular.

Snowdrops are opening the 2026 garden season. 🌱

Officially “chambered solid body”.
It’s okay with piezo/body pickups, but sounds like a duck without them.
Quack, quack.

Comment on YT: “@HearNoEvil55, five years ago: makes me wanna break in my neighbor's house and water his plants”

( ._.)