nico.ninja
A deep dive journey about electronics, computers, radio and so on.
Electronics, computers, radio, IoT, motorsports, software development and microcontroller-based projects.
Articles
2026
- Building a SatNOGS ground station (Aug 8)
Building a SatNOGS ground station, messing with filters and amplifiers - Flipper Zero APRS Transceiver (May 3)
Building a APRS transceiver out of a Flipper Zero and a DRA818V module - Improving filtering in my SDR receiver (Apr 17)
Reducing the noise figure when working with the HackRF One - RadioBerry on a Yaesu FT-80C (Feb 4)
Building a complete RadioBerry transceiver inside a Yaesu FT-80C - RadioBerry on a Vertex VX1700 (Jan 22)
Our first steps into the RadioBerry
2025
- Leverage (Aug 1)
How to multiply your impact through people - What are you obsessed with? (Jul 28)
The fine line between passion and madness—and why I choose to walk it - Testing a band-stop filter (Jul 9)
Automated RF frequency response measurement using HackRF and RTL-SDR - Building a Smarter Weekly Meal Planner with AI (Apr 28)
Automating weekly meal planning with an AI chatbot for smarter menu suggestions - Home Assistant-enabled Air Freshener (Feb 20)
Automating an automatic air freshener spray dispenser
2024
- Netgear ReadyNAS remote decryption (Dec 22)
Decrypting the ReadyNAS from anywhere - VHF/UHF OpenWebRX+ receiver (Dec 15)
Building a dual band OpenWebRX+ receiver - VHF/UHF Flowerpot antenna build (Sep 15)
Building a simple dual band antenna at the radio club - Smart blinds with Home Assistant (Aug 15)
My journey installing and configuring local-only smart blind motors - The OpenIPC Project (Jul 30)
Opensourcing knockoff security cameras - CW Morse code trainer (Jul 3)
Learning Morse Code in a fun way - HC-SR501 PIR Sensor and Home Assistant (May 21)
My journey through the PIR sensors - Using your Yubikey for SSH (May 12)
Elevate your security guards with a Yubikey - Migrating to Home Assistant (Mar 30)
Automation and privacy in a single place - AC power meter (Mar 27)
Building a 4-channel power meter for my apartment - Apple Home compatible led strip (Feb 26)
Building an RGB led strip controllable with Apple Home - 3D printer remote shutdown (Feb 1)
Powering down the 3d printer before bad things goes on - Raspberry Pi UniFi Controller Mastery (Jan 30)
Things I wish I had known before installing the Unifi Controller in a Raspberry PI - GOES satellite reception part 1 (Jan 17)
A journey on trying to receive satellite images from the GOES 16 - Slides of my satellites talk at Nerdear.la 2023 (Jan 17)
Signals from outer space, Hunting for data at thousands of kilometers was my talk at Nerdear.la 2023 - The perfect fit for my 2011 Macbook Air (Jan 9)
Experience the revival of an old favorite but with Xubuntu 23.10 - Simple WAN failover with MikroTik (Jan 4)
A simple but effective way to do WAN failover leveraging the problem to the recursive routes
2023
- ATU-100 antenna tuner configuration (Nov 29)
My journey during the configuration of the ATU-100 antenna tuner - Upgrading Proxmox VE 7.x (Nov 24)
My notes during the upgrade of my Proxmox VE server - Lights on the Honda Cub EZ90 (Aug 30)
How I installed lights on my EZ90 - My system (Aug 9)
How I developed a system to optimize my lifestyle - Controlling AC Units with Apple Home and Siri (Jul 9)
Learn how to integrate custom protocols, automate temperature settings, and even report room temperature updates - Synchronizing the Bitcoin blockchain with a satellite (Jun 15)
Connecting to a telecommunications satellite to download the Bitcoin blockchain using a SDR receiver and Raspberry Pi - Monitoring the Netgear ReadyNAS with SNMP (Jun 13)
Keeping My NAS in check with snmp_exporter - A Bitcoin Mempool gauge indicator (Jun 6)
Measuring Bitcoin's next-block fee targets - Pwnagotchi fixes and improvements (May 25)
Upgrading the Battery and GPS for Enhanced Performance - Dyno Tuning the Golf GTI MK7.5 (May 19)
Enhancing Performance with Stage 1 Tune - Fuego Austral 2023: Find your friends (May 8)
Building shiny stuff for Fuego Austral
2022
- Writing a custom wheel decoder for the Megasquirt (Dec 31)
Learning about Megasquirt firmware internals - My home server (Dec 28)
Why do I have a home server and why you should as well - Hiding your footprints (May 15)
A neverending journey on hiding our digital footprint from the Internet.
2021
- Gamifying the Pwnagotchi (Oct 31)
I will show you how to improve your pwnagotchi unit with geolocation, real time clock and fix the AI mode