Robot Car Project: Part 3: Installing Raspberry Pi OS Lite

In Part 2 of this series, I mentioned that we’ll use a Raspberry Pi Zero W. The plan at the moment is to install a kind of pass-through program (Firmata) onto the Arduino that will allow us to read and write to the I/O pins of the Arduino via USB cable. First though, we need […]

Robot Car Project: Part 2: Basic Materials

Alright. So in the first post of this series, I introduced the robot car hacking project now underway. In this post, I’ll document the materials I think we’ll use to make WALL-E do more interesting things than the stock kit affords him to do out of the box. What can we work with out of […]

How-to: Install CentOS 6.5 using btrfs for the root partition

I discovered today that CentOS 6.5 x86_64 can be installed using btrfs with very little effort! Here’s how to do it: At the grub menu for the installation media (e.g. minimal install CD), press tab.  Pressing tab will give take you to a prompt where you may add to the installer’s kernel options. Append ‘ […]

Idea: Open Enterprise Bootstrap

There really should be an abstraction above the OS and “distro” levels. I’m talking about something akin to Open Compute, but not as inaccessible. No, what we need is some open and well thought out guidelines for what your basic tech start-up company infrastructure should look like. My guess is that a project to pull together the many open projects we’ve got into some standard layout will be a popular idea, which can reap many benefits.

Let’s try to answer some basic questions here for the common IT bootstrapper / renovator (after the break):

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