This post took longer than I could have imagine. Mostly some struggle with how I want to word things and procrastination. Some things you have to finish to see the end.
The Cabin Weekend is the Erasmus Student Network (ESN) event of the semester. The ESN team organizes a big cabin for all international students in Lucerne. In order to document this event, I decided to divide the following into several parts.
As already announced the month of May started strong with activities, during the bridge weekend a friend was visiting and fortunately it was a sunny long weekend.
Writing these updates is interesting, on one side you really start to see how time flies and on the other hand you have to recall what happened during this time. Last time I started to write a bit earlier and only had to do some final adjustments but this time I`m a bit behind so without further ado here are my experiences from April:
April this year had some really warm and already summer like days and fortunately the best days did match the weekends while the weekdays where more often cloudy and with rain. But first I used a fortunate break in my school schedule to make a quick trip to Germany and back to pick some last stuff and visit some friends. This is the last planned trip until my exams are done.
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Things started to settle in the second month. With the initial tings out of the way a schedule in the weeks could be found. Still some events and other activities did mix up the flow and I also have to remind myself that time flies, heck even with my posts here I can clearly see how fast things progress if you keep busy.
WeiterlesenSettling in was a bit tricky. Also writing this post is. Somehow you think about what to write and where to start and then all of the sudden one entire month is already gone. So instead of doing other tasks or my homework I will just do it.
I arrived on a Monday, everything was packed in the trunk of my father’s car and without any bigger issues we managed to arrive on time
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During my studies I decided to do one semester abroad.
As I have this blog now for some time I thought about reviving it.
This is mainly to collect my experiences and something for me to look back after some time.
And not to spam anyone. In good old fashion web2.0 everyone interested can have a look.
Not sure if I manage to maintain a schedule but I will try.
This little cap was keeping the USB thumb drive secure at my key-chain for several years. Now it broke. Time to print a new one.
Here again a video about speed running. Nothing new under the sun but it kept me entertained.
I wanted to be able to turn the Chromecast connected to my AVR on and off remotely without unplugging the cable. The rationale was that I did not want to have this device active all the time, only when I want to use it. One option would be to use a dedicated power supply in combination with a wireless plug. I use such devices with the open source software Tasmota.
After some digging around I found the Sinilink USB Switch Module (XY-WFUSB), a USB thumb drive size device that is able to be flashed with Tasmota as it uses an ESP8266 as chip.
As you can see the flashing is not trivial as the pin connectors on the device are quiet small. In my collection of electronic components I managed to find some pin connector that where fitting the small holes and could be used as adapter to regular sized breadboard cables.
Another user was using sewing pins and Andreas Spiess made great video documenting the whole process that really helped me and encouraged to try this out.