nico.ninja A deep dive journey about electronics, computers, radio and so on

  • What are you obsessed with?

    A few weeks ago, I was walking through Parque de El Retiro in Madrid with my friend Manu. During our 1:30-hour walk, we discussed many interesting topics, one of which sparked my ideas: obsession. What are you obsessed with? Obsession is a great driver for accomplishing complex and intricate goals,...


  • Testing a band-stop filter

    Whenever I mount an SDR to listen in the 144-148 MHz band, I try to filter out the broadcast FM signals. This is due to the lack of proper filtering or channelization in the Software-Defined Radio receivers I use. The filter I use most is one described in the LNA4ALL...


  • Building a Smarter Weekly Meal Planner with AI

    The FOMO about AI caught me. While I use Chat GPT and Claude for some of my daily tasks (even searching for things), I missed a good opportunity by not boarding the AI Agent development wave. Intuitively, my first question was: What should I do with my AI Agent? A...


  • Home Assistant-enabled Air Freshener

    As a disclaimer, I didn’t have any real reason to do this, but I found it fascinating. These automatic air fresheners come in different forms, colors, and sizes. Still, the internals are almost always the same: An LED indicating the spray was triggered, an IR led to sense light in...


  • Netgear ReadyNAS remote decryption

    My home server has a Netgear ReadyNAS NAS where I store sensitive data. The volumes are encrypted, so if someone steals the NAS, they won’t determine the disk’s contents. ReadyOS 6.x (the NAS software, based on Debian) can encrypt the volumes with an encryption key. While this is a great...