Electrical
Now that we have solar arrays, lithium batteries and good electronics to run everything, it is time to upgrade the AC part of our systems to a safer and better setup. This better system is insulated floating power distribution, like used in hospitals, war ships and commercial ships and other
Passage
We are aboard the Nieuw Statendam, a Holland America Line Pinnacle Class ship, traveling from Florida to Rotterdam. This ship has Starlink and we have the entry level wifi package that allows email en web browsing. So that’s great to try everything we set up on our MacMini back
Network
Cloud data became popular with the introduction of Dropbox and today we have iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive etc. that are all massively popular. While everyone accepts their small print conditions without even reading them, we know from sources like Snowden that governments do mass data surveillance including hacking and threatening
Network
We run several websites on our MacMini, each with it's own URL, like http://blog.sv-jedi.org/ and http://files.sv-jedi.org/. With only our router having a public IP number, this means that in DNS these names all point to the same IP number, which
Network
WireGuard was created by Jason A. Donenfeld and first appeared around 2015 as a new kind of VPN: lean, fast, modern and strong cryptography. it was added into the Linux kernel in 2020 and into the Mikrotik routers in 2022. Every serious router has it today. When your router has
The ISP we currently use for our VPN hub is Spectrum Cable. We get 700Mbps usable download bandwidth and their cable modem has a 1Gbps Ethernet port that provides us with a public IP number with DHCP. This is connected to our WAN port on the Mikrotik router. A public
Network
Music is a large part of our lives. We have a large music collection that we prefer over any online streaming platform. In the past we converted everything to lossless digital format and used Squeezebox, Logitec and Sonos, progressing as they ceased to exist. For the last couple of years
Hydroponics
Our experiment with growing hydroponic callaloo was a big success. This vegetable can replace spinach while growing in tropical climates and, using hydroponics, it can grow without soil aboard a sailboat. These plants can grow very large when it isn’t topped and harvested regularly. We put four in a
3D
This is the first CAD 3D design that I'm sharing on my blog. It's very useful as a tool if you need to secure a seed phrase in the safest way possible, which is stamped into stainless steel washers. You simply put the washers on a
Network
I am writing this post sooner than I planned to and the reason is that I discovered that after telephones and drones, they are now also banning simple retail wifi routers. The Orwellian future isn't future anymore... After a lot of testing and spending lots of money on
Electrical
Finally received everything I needed to finish this project. The pictures above and below show every wire and every connection. I used a Wago for the black wire running back to battery negative or busbar because that wire needs to be installed after we mount this module where we need
News
When our provider ceased operations, we lost our blog. These interruptions keep happening and we got tired of it so we decided to do everything ourselves. This new blog now runs on our own MacMini server, connected to our cable Internet ISP. This will also replace our Facebook page that