Hardware

This will just be a quick post to share the cable I built for interfacing PC audio with my Xiegu G90 for digital radio modes.

For the past couple years, I’ve fiddled with multiple programmable keyboards and various remapping software like Piper to try to customize my input devices to work they way I wanted them too. All the while, I had a RPi Pico sitting, unused on a shelf. Finally, in 2026, I discovered HID Remapper.

After about two weeks of additional reading and tinkering, I think I’ve got a slightly better informed opinion about Meshtastic and it’s uses.

After hearing so much about Meshtastic over the past year or two, I finally decided to purchase a device to play with, specifically, a Heltec v3 (with a LilyGo T-deck+ scheduled to be delivered in a month).

As someone who works a desk-job and has mostly computer-related hobbies, I realize that I spend a lot of my day looking one screen or another. In a low-effort attempt to reduce “screen time,” I recently purchased another screen: a PocketBook Verse, and connected it to my Komga instance…

My wife recently came into possession of an “Answer Book.” These were small info guides intended to provide salesclerks with the basic knowledge needed to help customers find the right products for purchase. This particular answer book for the Home Entertainment department of a rather large retailer and was issued in 2006, making it exactly two decades old this year.

Shutting it down

This project was essentially a proof-of-concept. After 30+ days of uptime, I’ve decided it was time to take it down…

Day 6

We’re online!