After a bit of a delay, the 2nd generation of the BBC Micro:bit has been delivered. Unfortunately as it’s a Christmas present for my daughter I can’t play with it too much, but I did take a quick opportunity to open the box and take a few pics of each Continue Reading
IoT free-tier Revolution
Warning: Ranty Post ahead If any manufacturers of IoT hardware are reading this, please STOP offering a free tier for your products and services, as unless you can maintain that free tier for the lifetime of the product it will be your undoing. I’m not talking about free trial periods Continue Reading
Terraform Adventures
As you probably know there are hundreds of different posts about building Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, but this details some of my experience when coupled with AWS. The main aim of this demonstration is to stand up a single AWS EC2 instance, ready for logging into on its public Continue Reading
RPi4 booting from NVMe (over USB)
It just so happened that recently the USB booting feature for the RPi4 coming out of Beta and Amazon Prime day coincided around the same time. I took this as a sign to beef up my main RPi daily machine with some external storage which would be faster and also Continue Reading