This week we have feel-good content for nerds and OCD people: The Netgear GS108 gigabit switch. The GS108v1 to be precise. Likely the first consumer gigabit switch from Netgear, and gigabit ethernet has been around for, uhh, 20 years now.

This brick with a chassis much wider than required for the ports alone: (and a maximum power draw of 2.5A at 5V, or 12.5W…)

Since we moved to a new building at work in the last two weeks, the entire office with all the R&D stuff needs to be rearranged and made to fit. One of the many puzzle pieces is some miniPC that is the master control unit for several downstream PCBs. […]