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Converting a Cisco 7609 into a beer tap (2021)

Last year I thought that we had reached some sort of peak in terms of how far one can go in building useless things by converting a 42U rack into a

For all you people that 12 months ago had no idea what this even meant, imagine deriving all the measurements in the CAD software from variables to the point where I can type X LEDs and the sketch updates and create the amount that I want. The intent here was to have a piece of software that ran on a Raspberry Pi, used the SPI port to drive all the LEDs and serve as a web server where one could control the different behaviours of the router such as color changes and strobe. The other beer was a NEIPA (New England India Pale Ale) that we titled “CHONGCHAMBERIPA” after listening to Mullah Said by Muslimgauze and reading a review on RYM by SlarkSlark that described the album.

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