The Curious Engineer

All blogs / Electronics

Willy Tarreau's stuff

wtarreau.blogspot.com

Brain dumps. Reports about experiments, ideas, and various stuff that's more useful on the net than written on paper stacked on my desk.

ElectronicsLinux / UnixAlgorithms / data structuresPerformance / optimizationEmbedded / microcontrollers

’10’15’20’25
Posts
48 from 8 Oct 2006 to 17 May 2026
Posting
now and then (2 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog
Feed
https://wtarreau.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

2026 1

  1. Find bugs in YOUR code using OpenCode, Llama.cpp and Qwen3.6

2025 5

  1. AMD Radeon Instinct MI50-32GB: best AI card for beginners ?
  2. Redudant power supply for home servers and devices
  3. Real-world performance comparison of ebtree/cebtree/rbtree
  4. Performance comparison of EB trees and CEB trees
  5. On the design of Compact Elastic Binary Trees (cebtree)

2024 4

  1. Adding a cheap and simple RTC to Rockchip devices
  2. Improving A Laser Engraver's Resolution And Accuracy
  3. An affordable 10GbE capable NAS
  4. Optimizing shelf life of battery

2020 3

  1. Breadbee: Build your own single board computer
  2. Build your own Tiny USB Battery
  3. Improving the Eleksmaker A3 Pro Laser Engraver

2019 8

  1. Quick and clean PCBs for week-end projects
  2. My first experiments with the EleksMaker A3 Pro laser engraver
  3. Making a cloud chamber to see radioactivity
  4. Better cooling for the build farm
  5. Making a simple sunrise alarm clock
  6. Build farm, version 3 (2018)
  7. Build farm, version 2 (2016-2017)
  8. Build farm, version 1 (2015-2016)

2018 6

  1. Connecting a USB serial console to WRT1900ACS
  2. Replacing 2 AA 1.5V batteries with 2 AA lithium batteries
  3. Modding an RC transmitter to support lithium batteries
  4. Gigabit Ethernet Everywhere
  5. USB-based watchdog for ATX power supply
  6. Progressive Locks : fast, upgradable read/write locks

2017 6

  1. Tiny USB batteries v3
  2. Look back to an end-of-life LTS kernel : 3.10
  3. What ESP8266 modules should look like
  4. Scaling RC servo angles / ESC speed on the fly
  5. Injecting power into mains
  6. Because the world runs on 5V

2016 4

  1. Smallest, cheap ON-OFF switch for RC cars using a servo
  2. Extreme power TV-B-Gone
  3. Installing Linux on a SolidRun Clearfog+eMMC board
  4. Migration to blogspot

2015 1

  1. Repairing Korg Krome's blank screen

2013 4

  1. Line rate HTTP server on the OpenBlocks AX3
  2. Mirabox: much better than GuruPlug
  3. Some news from the GuruPlug
  4. Switching to the Dockstar

2011 1

  1. Elastic Binary Trees - ebtree

2010 1

  1. GuruPlug Server Plus : don't waste your money on it!

2007 2

  1. How to add a capacitor to keep RTC running on PC Engines ALIX
  2. How to build a cheap UPS for PC Engines ALIX

2006 2

  1. Making applications scalable with Load Balancing
  2. Hacking into the Linksys NSLU2