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Personal blog and hacks by Raymundo Cassani

This post is to show the type of images that can be obtained with an affordable USB microscope, similar to this one. The output image is 640 x 480 pixels, and the optical zoom is supposed to go from 50x to 500x. As the microscope has not adjustment for focus …

Situation: When my laptop is in suspension with the lid open, any update (movement or clicks) with the wireless mouse wakes-up the laptop. This post is about creating a systemd unit, and hook it to the start of the sleep unit, and disable the mouse as wake-up device. This approach …

PhD Thesis Summary

In November 2018, I performed my PhD defense, this is a summary of it. The title is "Towards an Automated Portable EEG-based System for Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis", and it can be found in its integrity here. The defense slides are available here Contents: Challenges for EEG-based Alzheimer’s disease …

Nowadays we have to handle an enormous quantity of passwords. As it is not desirable to reuse passwords, nor to write down, it is necessary to have a way manage them. After research and thinking in advantages and drawbacks among the different methods, I came to the solution of using KeePassXC alongside with Dropbox.


Image from: Link An energy vampire device is the one that consumes electric energy anytime is plugged, even when it is not in use, one of the most common examples nowadays are chargers. Let's first define electric energy consumption. Electric energy consumption Electric energy consumption is measured as a number …