Repair notes
Fixing my eight-year-old speaker set
Diagnosing and repairing a pair of Edifier R1280T bookshelf speakers instead of replacing them.
Writing, kept the slow way
First-hand essays, practical guides, and the occasional postmortem from things I have built, repaired, studied, or operated myself.
How the sites fit together: this is the human-authored long-form archive. Project briefs, current build logs, and research notes live at abhishekdoesstuff.com.
Long-form archive
Self-hosting
Why—and how—I built a homelab
The hardware, software, trade-offs, and lessons behind a low-cost home server.
Electronics
DIY Ambilight for a monitor or TV
An Arduino and WS2812 LED build for responsive bias lighting behind a display.
Small build
A planted aquarium in a bottle
A first-hand build log for a compact planted jarrarium.
Virtualization
Run a native Linux installation as a Hyper-V VM
Reusing a dual-boot Linux installation from Windows without maintaining a second VM image.
Networking
Expose local services to the internet
A practical guide to tunnelling local services and automating the changing public URL.
Machine learning
A network analysis of political Twitter
Collecting tweets, constructing an interaction graph, and exploring political communities through clustering.
Self-hosting
Installing rTorrent with a web interface
A streamlined setup guide based on operating the stack in my own homelab.
IIT Bombay and education
- Life at IIT Bombay — a conversation about the M.Tech experience.
- The Research Assistant interview process — notes from the years I was involved; confirm the current process with current RAs.
- The difference between RA and TA — a comparison of the two programmes.
- M.Tech thesis: Fake News Detection — Fact Checking and Bias Detection — my final research report.
Useful reference pages
- My desk, work, and hobby setup contains the gear I use and clearly marks affiliate links.
- About me has my background, interests, and ways to get in touch.