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Project Logs

Build logs/journals of projects I’ve done involving software, electronics, 3D printing, and more.

21 posts
Oct 2011 – Aug 2025

Expanding the Ubiquiti Cloud Key Gen 2+ with a 3.5” Hard Drive

Part of the Project Logs series. This post walks through my successful expansion of Ubiquiti’s Cloud Key Gen2+ to use a 3.5” hard drive instead of a 2.5” drive. Motivation In January 2021, I upgraded my Cloud Key to a 5TB hard drive, which is the maximum …

Replacing iTunes, Music.app, iTunes Match, and iCloud Music Library

Part of the Project Logs series. More follow-up from my recent “Now” post: I’ve finally (mostly) extricated my music library from the entirety of Apple’s music ecosystem. This post documents how and why I did that. The Problems A long, long time ago, I used iTunes to play …

Securing my personal SSH infrastructure with Yubikeys

One recently-completed project I mentioned in January’s “Now” post was locking down SSH in my personal computing infrastructure using Yubikeys. In this post, I’ll outline my goals, the strategy I took, and the problems and solutions I ran into along the way.

Quick ADS-B monitoring on OS X

A quick write-up of a minimal ADS-B monitoring setup, with a standard RTL-SDR receiver and a MacBook.

Monitoring aircraft via ADS-B on OS X

I recently set up an ADS-B monitoring rig on a Mac Mini at home. This post documents the process I went through to allow monitoring aircraft and feeding information to several flight tracking websites.

Capturing Lightning

Building an analog circuit to trigger a DSLR camera when it detected lightning.