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 […]
Robot Car Project: Part 1: Introduction
I recently purchased an ELEGOO Smart Robot Car Kit V3.0 Plus during Prime Day. My 5 year old son and I assembled it as a STEM learning project. He loves the assembled robot and he named it “WALL-E” after one of his favorite movie characters. Once we were done building WALL-E, my son asked if […]
Raspberry Pi Bookshelf on Ubuntu 20.10 amd64
Happy Thanksgiving! I recently started using Ubuntu 20.10 amd64 on my new HP Omen 5 laptop where I’ll be developing some software for Raspberry Pi. I had originally tried to use Raspberry Pi OS on one of my Raspberry Pi 3B+ boards, but found that the OS hung up under general use (I like browser […]
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 ‘ […]
Would you like some Salt with your Freedom?
I wish to share my experience installing the Salt Stack on Trisquel 6.x. Salt Stack is a very cool Apache 2.0-licensed remote execution / configuration management / plus more tool. Trisquel is an awesome free as in freedom GNU/Linux distribution, which seeks to purge all non-free bits from your GNU/Linux experience. Trisquel 6.0 is based […]
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):
Song: “Sierra”
It’s not great, but I made something for the first time in a long time, so I figured I’d share. By the way, I just started using REAPER, and it’s amazing for the cost, with all the free VST’s and VSTi’s floating around. Peritus – Sierra later, -j
ElectroScar
Look and listen…GIMP owns your face.
Proposed Logo: Open Source Hardware
Data: February 28, 2011 Title: OSHW I/O, Mk. I Description: The logo is meant to instill creativity, wonder and excitement in the viewer. It makes a nearly animated statement about what goes into the design and implementation of any hardware it appears upon. (You too can submit a logo design for the contest @ this […]