2019 Update

Its been a couple months, and quite a lot has changed. I made the move interstate to more back in with my parents and have a change of both lifestyle and career, something that I have been wanting to do for while. I have taken a year off from uni in order to get my life back on track and work on improving other skills that I wasn’t able to when working full time to afford accommodation. I hope that throughout 2019 I will be able to work on previous projects and start some new ones too.

The projects that I would like to start (and finish) are;

• Micromatt Website (How I made this website, in an attempt to help others who are striving to achieve the same)
• Home server(s), setting up of Unraid and building my own server rack and sever case and accessories.
• A Raspberry Pi based PiHole Server - looking at using the Raspberry Pi Zero
• Raspberry Pi or Arduino based Weather Station
• PIC Microcontroller projects, including set up of the chip on a breadboard, design of a PCB and Development Board as well as programming the device.
• Digital Electronics
• DIY (40%) Keyboard.

The Raspberry Pi Zero, I plan to use for PiHole
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The project that I plan to have done first, will most likely be the PiHole Server. I plan on using a Raspberry Pi Zero (The Pi without Wireless/Bluetooth or ethernet) and use a separate ethernet controller to give it internet connectivity - connected via SPI to the Pi’s GPIO pins.

Next, I really want to get the server rack and cases done, so that it can be displayed nicely and not just as a “test bench” on the top of a cupboard - as it is at the moment.

The mighty Unraid Server, perched upon a cupboard..
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I will update this blog when I have made significant progress in one or more of the projects that I have outlined above, that’s all I have for now,

Matt