Introduction In the article Lego Dimensions, I covered all the available packs for playing with the console. Unfortunately, not all of them are available for purchase anymore except from collectors, <brickset.com> or some resellers. After some research, several pages provide instructions about the tags themselves and how to ‘fix’ or ‘clone’ them. Materials Each base is a NFC tag NTAG 213 which is either read only (characters) or rewritable (vehicles). With an NFC writer/reader on your mobile phone, the tags can be cloned/copied so that you can ‘repair’ the broken ones, without buying again the pack (base can be opened with a precision screwdriver by pulling it out using the small marks (opposite in the base with + shape). ...

Introduction iCalendar (.ics or webcal) is a standard for providing ‘calendar’ information over text file, it allows to define events, etc and it’s ideal to ‘subscribe’ over the internet to remote calendars, which is commonly used to show free/busy slots for scheduling meetings, etc. If you’re familiar with Google Calendar or others, it uses ‘ics’ under the hood, and you can get full url for it so that it can be shared. ...

This article was published originally at https://metal3.io/blog/2019/09/11/Baremetal-operator.html Introduction The baremetal operator, documented at https://github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator/blob/master/docs/api.md, it’s the Operator in charge of definitions of physical hosts, containing information about how to reach the Out of Band management controller, URL with the desired image to provision, plus other properties related with hosts being used for provisioning instances. Quoting from the project: The Bare Metal Operator implements a Kubernetes API for managing bare metal hosts. It maintains an inventory of available hosts as instances of the BareMetalHost Custom Resource Definition. The Bare Metal Operator knows how to: Inspect the host’s hardware details and report them on the corresponding BareMetalHost. This includes information about CPUs, RAM, disks, NICs, and more. Provision hosts with a desired image Clean a host’s disk contents before or after provisioning. ...

Introduction Lego Dimensions is a game for some platforms (Xbox, Wii U, PlayStation) which adds a base with NFC reader and colour LED that allows to interact with the video game from the real world. The starter pack ‘starter pack’ has minifigs for Supercool, Batman and Gandalf plus additional blocks to ‘decorate’ the base by building a portal. The main story is based on how those characters (Gandalf, Batman and Supercool) meet and attempt to find and rescue their friends while visiting several worlds. ...

After my post about killercoda, I did split my initial scenarios into ‘organizations’. One of them, is in progress to get contributed upstream to KubeVirt project killercoda (still getting some reviews to land on final repo), and the other is under Citellus organization. As the goal was not to lose visits using the prior links, I contacted the team behind killercoda Support (thanks a lot Ben!!) and the requirements to get a ‘redirect’ in place is to: ...