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My hardware hacks

Thinkpad X220 FullHD mod with LVDS coreboot patch
Solar-powered MQTT wifi particulate matter sensor
Tuning the Easythreed X1 for amazing results
Velleman K8200 3D printer improvements
My homebrew Nixie clock
If you have an old teletype machine, you can have a look at my tux2tty page.
Color changing light saber lamp
Control Ikea Dioder LED RGB strip via I2C.
To connect a DL1414 LED display to your printer port, go here.

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- last change: 2021/05/15

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daduke rides Stevens and Canyon bikes
and Suzuki motorcycles

current read

Stephen King - It

past reads

Rachel Abbott - Sleep Tight

Craig Alanson - Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force Book 1)

Craig Alanson - SpecOps (Expeditionary Force Book 2)

Andreas Altmann - Im Land der Freien:

Philip Ball - Critical Mass:

Simon Becket - Die Chemie des Todes:

Simon Beckett - Flammenbrut

Simon Beckett - Kalte Asche:

Simon Beckett - Leichenblaesse: Good too.

Simon Beckett - The Calling of the Grave

Simon Beckett - Verwesung: Creepy.

Irving Belateche - H2O: not bad

Sibylle Berg - Ein paar Leute suchen das Gl�ck und lachen sich tot: Roman (German Edition)

Paul Bilton - The Xenophobe's Guide to the Swiss

Keith C Blackmore - Hellifax (Mountain Man Book 3)

Keith C Blackmore - Mountain Man

Keith C Blackmore - Safari (Mountain Man Book 2)

Keith C Blackmore - Well Fed (Mountain Man Book 4)

Howard Bloom - The Lucifer Principle

Howard Bloom - The Lucifer Principle:

Andy Borowitz - An Unexpected Twist

Dan Brown - Angels & Demons

Dan Brown - Deception Point:

Dan Brown - Inferno: A Novel: just WOW

Dan Brown - Origin

Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code

John D. Brown - Bad Penny

Ryk Brown - Arrival

Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything: immensely interesting

Bill Bryson - Notes From A Big Country: dead-on and very funny

Italo Calvino - Der Baron auf den B�umen:

Steven Campbell - Hard Luck Hank: Basketful of Crap

Steven Campbell - Hard Luck Hank: Screw the Galaxy

W. Bernard Carlson - Tesla: if you know one thing or two about physics, you'll be disappointed

Gianrico Carofiglio - In freiem Fall:

John Carreyrou - Bad Blood

Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep:

Robert B. Cialdini - Influence

Eric H. Cline - 1177 B.C.

George Clinton - Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard On You?: A Memoir

James Comey - A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

Michael Connelly - The Burning Room

Douglas Coupland - JPod:

Michael Crichton - Airframe

Michael Crichton - Congo

Michael Crichton - Next

Michael Crichton - Prey

Michael Crichton - The Eaters of the Dead

Michael Crichton - Timeline

Blake Crouch - Abandon: nice

Evan Currie - Homeworld (Odyssey One): 3 of Odyssey One

Evan Currie - Into the Black: Odyssey One: Part 1,

Evan Currie - On Silver Wings

Evan Currie - The Heart of Matter: Odyssey One: 2 and

Evan Currie - Valkyrie Rising (On Silver Wings Book 2)

Chuck D - Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History

Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves:

Friedrich Christian Delius - Die Frau, f�r die ich den Computer erfand:

Jared Diamond - Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel

Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel:

Tim Draper - How to be The Startup Hero: A Guide and Textbook for Entrepreneurs and Aspiring Entrepreneurs

John Dreese - Red Hope: (Book 1)

Robert Dugoni - My Sister's Grave

�ke Edwardson - Rotes Meer

�ke Edwardson & Angelika Kutsch - Toter Mann

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis - Glamorama

Bret Easton Ellis - Imperial Bedrooms

Bret Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero

Bret Easton Ellis - Lunar Park

Bret Easton Ellis - The Informers

Bret Easton Ellis - The Rules of Attraction

Craig A. Falconer - Not Alone

Peter Ernst Fischer - Schr�dingers Katze auf dem Mandelbrotbaum: Durch die Hintert�r zur Wissenschaft: Interesting read even for a physicist

Bruno Flexer - Mechanical

Ken Follett - The Pillars of the Earth

William R. Forstchen - One Second After: Frighteningly realistic EMP catastrophe

Thomas Friedman - The World is Flat

Michael Frye - Digital Landscape Photography:

Eduard Glatz - Betriebssysteme

Adam Grant - Originals

Glenn Greenwald - No Place to Hide

Brendan Gregg - Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud

Christopher Greyson - JACKS ARE WILD (Detective Jack Stratton Mystery Thriller Series Book 3)

John Grisham - A Time To Kill: My first Grisham

Michael C Grumley - Breakthrough

Michael C Grumley - Evan After

Michael C Grumley - Leap

Joe Haldeman - Camouflage

Joe Haldeman - Forever Free - Forever War 03

Joe Haldeman - Forever Peace - Forever War 02

Joe Haldeman - The Forever War

Justin Halpern - I Suck at Girls

Justin Halpern - Sh*t My Dad Says

Peter F. Hamilton - Fallen Dragon:

Peter F. Hamilton - Pandora's Star

Peter F. Hamilton - The Dreaming Void:

Peter F. Hamilton - The Evolutionary Void:

Peter F. Hamilton - The Temporal Void:

James Hankins - Brothers and Bones

Yuval Noah Harari - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari - Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit

Yuval Noah Harari - Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time: now (with a PhD in physics) I understand it better than 15 years ago

Heinrich Heine - Deutschland. Ein Winterm�rchen

Peer Heinlein - Dovecot

John Hibbing - Predisposed

Henry Hill - Gangsters and Goodfellas:

Tom Hillenbrand - Drohnenland

Christopher Hitchens - God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything:

Michael Hjorth - Der Mann, der kein M�rder war:Die F�lle des Sebastian Bergman

Roger Hobbs - Ghostman: solid crime book

Colleen Hoover - Hopeless

G. Michael Hopf - The End - A Post Apocalyptic Novel: scaringly realistic

Sabine Hossenfelder - Lost in Math

Hugh Howey - Beacon 23: The Complete Novel

Hugh Howey - Dust (Silo Saga): Nice ending of the trilogy.

Hugh Howey - Half Way Home: nice

Hugh Howey - Sand Omnibus

Hugh Howey - Shift Omnibus Edition (Shift 1-3) (Silo Saga): probably the weakest of the 3 parts

Hugh Howey - The Hurricane

Hugh Howey - Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1 - 5) (Silo Saga)

Andrew 'bunnie' Huang - Hacking The Xbox

Andrew 'bunnie' Huang - The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware

Christian Humberg - Der alte Mann und das Netz: Mein Vater entdeckt das Internet

Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs: Evil genius

Jonas Jonasson - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared: pretty funny indeed

Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow

Michio Kaku - Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

Robert Kanigel - The Man Who Knew Infinity

John Katzenbach - The Dead Student

John Katzenbach - The Madman's Tale

John Katzenbach - The Wrong Man

John Katzenbach - What Comes Next

Elliott Kay - Poor Man's Fight: not bad

Gerald M. Kilby - Colony One Mars: A SciFi Thriller (Colony Mars Book 1)

Gerald M. Kilby - Colony Two Mars: A SciFi Thriller (Colony Mars Book 2)

Sara King - Forging Zero (The Legend of ZERO): meh

Stephen King - 11/22/63: Very good

Stephen King - Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger: (Volume 1) (The Dark Tower)

Stephen King - End of Watch (The Bill Hodges Trilogy Book 3)

Stephen King - Finders Keepers

Stephen King - Misery

Stephen King - Mr. Mercedes: A Novel

Stephen King - Salems Lot

Stephen King - Song of Susannah

Stephen King - The Dark Tower

Stephen King - The Drawing of the Three

Stephen King - The Outsider: A Novel

Stephen King - The Shining

Stephen King - The Stand

Stephen King - The Waste Lands

Stephen King - Under the Dome

Stephen King - Under the dome:

Stephen King - Wizard and Glass

Stephen King - Wolves of the Calla

Steven Konkoly - Black Flagged Alpha (The Black Flagged Series Book 1)

Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest: Finishing off the trilogy

Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Played with Fire: OK they're good.

Stieg Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Join the hype

Jenny Lawson - Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir): quite funny at times

Ann Leckie - Ancillary Justice

Ann Leckie - Ancillary Mercy

Ann Leckie - Ancillary Sword

Elmore Leonard - 52 Pickup

Elmore Leonard - Charlie Martz and Other Stories

Elmore Leonard - Cuba Libre

Elmore Leonard - Djibouti

Elmore Leonard - Fire in the Hole

Elmore Leonard - Killshot

Elmore Leonard - Maximum Bob

Elmore Leonard - Mr. Paradise

Elmore Leonard - Out of Sight

Elmore Leonard - Pagan Babies

Elmore Leonard - Pronto

Elmore Leonard - Riding the Rap

Elmore Leonard - Stick

Elmore Leonard - Swag

Elmore Leonard - The Hunted

Elmore Leonard - The Moonshine War

Elmore Leonard - The Switch

Elmore Leonard - Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories

Elmore Leonard - Tishomingo Blues

Elmore Leonard - When the Women Come Out to Dance

Cixin Liu - Death's End (The Three-Body Problem)

Cixin Liu - The Dark Forest

Cixin Liu - The Three-Body Problem

Omarosa Manigault Newman - Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

Thomas Mann - Der Zauberberg

Matthew Mather - CyberStorm: very good end-of-the-world story

Matthew Mather - Darknet

Matthew Mather - Nomad: A Thriller (The New Earth Series, Book 1)

Cormac McCarthy - The Road:

Mark Wayne McGinnis - The Simpleton

Pascal Mercier - Der Klavierstimmer:

Pascal Mercier - Nachtzug nach Lissabon

Paul Midler - Poorly Made in China

David Miller - AWOL on the Appalachian Trail

Kevin Mitnick - Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker: Amazing what social hacking can do.

Kevin Mitnick - The Art of Deception: too much bla bla

Kevin Mitnick - The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders & Deceivers

Rick Mofina - If Angels Fall: Nothing to write home about

Stephen Moss - Fear the Future (The Fear Saga Book 3)

Stephen Moss - Fear the Sky (The Fear Saga Book 1)

Stephen Moss - Fear the Survivors (The Fear Saga Book 2)

Randall Munroe - What If?

Ramez Naam - Apex (The Nexus Trilogy Book 3)

Ramez Naam - Crux (The Nexus Trilogy Book 2)

Ramez Naam - Nexus (The Nexus Trilogy Book 1)

Jo Nesb� - Der Fledermausmann: Roman

Jo Nesb� - Die Larve: Harry Holes neunter Fall

Jo Nesb� - Rotkehlchen:

H�kan Nesser - Das zweite Leben des Herrn Roos: Roman - Ein Fall f�r Inspektor Barbarotti

H�kan Nesser - Die Einsamen: Ein Fall f�r Inspektor Barbarotti

Christopher Nuttall - Ark Royal

James Patterson - The President Is Missing: A Novel

Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture

M. Scott Peck - People of the Lie:

M. Scott Peck - The Road Less Traveled:

Andrew Peterson - Contract to Kill (The Nathan McBride Series Book 5)

Andrew Peterson - First to Kill (The Nathan McBride Series Book 1)

Andrew Peterson - Forced to Kill (The Nathan McBride Series Book 2)

Andrew Peterson - Option to Kill (The Nathan McBride Series Book 3)

Andrew Peterson - Ready to Kill (The Nathan McBride Series Book 4)

Douglas Phillips - Quantum Space (Quantum Series Book 1)

Douglas Phillips - Quantum Void (Quantum Series Book 2)

Richard Phillips - Immune (The Rho Agenda): 2 and

Richard Phillips - The Second Ship (The Rho Agenda): Part 1,

Richard Phillips - Wormhole (The Rho Agenda): 3 of the Rho Agenda - not too bad

Thomas Piketty - Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Sean Platt & Johnny B. Truant - Annihilation (Alien Invasion Book 4)

Sean Platt & Johnny B. Truant - Colonization (Alien Invasion Book 3)

Sean Platt & Johnny B. Truant - Contact

Sean Platt & Johnny B. Truant - Invasion (Alien Invasion Book 1)

Phil Price - Unknown (The Forsaken Series Book 1)

Marc Rainer - Capital Kill

Marc Rainer - Horns of the Devil: A Jeff Trask Legal Thriller

Douglas E. Richards - AMPED (The WIRED Sequel): better

Douglas E. Richards - Mind's Eye: Another cool scifi story

Douglas E. Richards - WIRED: good

A.G. Riddle - Pandemic (The Extinction Files Book 1)

Simon Riggs - PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook

Mary Roach - Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

Tom Robbins - Another Roadside Attraction:

Luca Rossi - Galactic Energies

Philip Roth - Exit Ghost:

Philip Roth - The Plot Against America:

Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Schatten des Windes:

Salman Rushdie - Shalimar The Clown:

Salman Rushdie - Shalimar the Clown

Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses

Nick Sand - System of Fear : An Action-Packed Techno Thriller: not too bad

Brandon Sanderson - Legion

Christoph Schlingensief - So sch�n wie hier kanns im Himmel gar nicht sein!: Tagebuch einer Krebserkrankung

L.J. Sellers - Point of Control

Gary Shteyngart - Little Failure

Gary Shteyngart - Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel

Nate Silver - The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail-But Some Don't: too much bla bla

Graeme Simsion - The Rosie Effect: Don Tillman 2 (Don Tillman series)

Graeme Simsion - The Rosie Project: Don Tillman 1 (Don Tillman Series)

Gregory Smith - PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance

Huston Smith - Why Religion Matters:

Nicholas Sansbury Smith - Extinction Horizon (The Extinction Cycle Book 1)

Flavio Soriga - Der schwarze Regen

John Steinbeck - Cannery Row:

Neal Stephenson - Anathem

Neal Stephenson - Anathem:

Neal Stephenson - Cobweb:

Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon: it IS a good book

Neal Stephenson - Interface:

Neal Stephenson - Reamde: Great fun.

Neal Stephenson - Seveneves

Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash: Very good

Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age

Neal Stephenson - The Great Simolean Caper

Neal Stephenson - The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

Neal Stephenson - Zodiac: Well done

Cliff Stoll - Cuckoo's Egg: Fascinating

Benjamin Stuckrad-Barre - Panikherz

Daniel Suarez - Change Agent

Daniel Suarez - Daemon

Daniel Suarez - Freedom

Daniel Suarez - Influx

Daniel Suarez - Kill Decision

Dennis E. Taylor - All These Worlds (Bobiverse Book 3)

Dennis E. Taylor - For We Are Many (Bobiverse Book 2)

Dennis E. Taylor - We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse Book 1)

Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Time: Winner of the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award

Michael Theurillat - Eistod:

Tim Tigner - Coercion

Kurt Tucholsky - Schlo� Gripsholm

Ashlee Vance - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Timur Vermes - Er ist wieder da: Der Roman

Tony Vigorito - Just a couple of days:

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse - Five: eh?

David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest:

Henry S. Warren - Hacker's Delight

Dietmar Wehr - The Synchronicity War Part 1

Dietmar Wehr - The Synchronicity War Part 2

Dietmar Wehr - The Synchronicity War Part 3

Dietmar Wehr - The Synchronicity War Part 4

Andy Weir - Artemis

Andy Weir - The Martian: what a page-turner!

Martha Wells - All Systems Red (Kindle Single): The Murderbot Diaries

Robert Anton Wilson - Prometheus Rising

Leslie Wolfe - Las Vegas Girl: A Gripping, Suspenseful Crime Novel

Michael Wolff - Fire and Fury

David Wong - John Dies at the End: This is one strange book.

David Wong - This Book is Full of Spiders

Bob Woodward - Fear: Trump in the White House

Alain de Botton - The Art of Travel:

Leon de Winter - Das Recht auf R�ckkehr: