I work in the tech industry, and tech is also one of my hobbies! (there are quite a few others...)
I'm constantly collecting projects, ideas, and new things I want to work on. For example, I probably won't get all of this done this weekend, but some of my plans are:
recabling my home office. I recently upgraded my home network backup and media storage (from a Netgear ReadyNAS 104, to a Synology DS920+), and I need to rearrange things to put that where it will be living; I also need more power connections for some Pis, and to take out some older machines. Finally, I really need to fix a double-NAT problem with my router and some of the kit from my ISP. Annoying!
I've been playing with an e-Paper display on a Pi Zero. The project is working fine, but I'm thinking about switching the Python library I'm using for the rendering, and improving the configurability of the code. I might also try running it in Micropython on a Pi Pico...
the weekly podcast that I co-host needs some more work on the website. We run on WordPress. Last weekend I did a bunch of cleanup and admin, but I have some ideas for some more improvements. Plus, I'll be writing the show notes and scheduling the new episode to post on Monday...
I have a retro games handheld (a GPi Case 2, containing a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4) that I want to finish setting up... 👾
- there are a huge number of things I have to build / solder, including another gaming handheld (a ByteBoi from CircuitMess), and a Keyboard FeatherWing that I want to combine with a Feather S2 to build a handheld that can run BASIC...
edit: added, because I just remembered it!
- oh! Oh! also, I have all the parts to put together a PixelIt display, and I keep meaning to get that done, it looks super interesting 💡
Do you code or hack on tech projects at weekends? What are you working on? I'd love to hear more!
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I had a lazy day yesterday and mostly did some gaming on the Xbox, and some reading here on DEV… but, I have scheduled the podcast episode / blog post for tomorrow, and I did some reorg of network storage.
I also did some research into ideas for a LilyGo T-Display RP2040 board I have. On the hardware stuff, I often let myself get held back by not really wanting to do the soldering! I should get into that…