Our home windows laptop died over a year ago, and was replaced by a Chromebook, which has been great and fulfilled most needs, but for those it couldn’t, I had a Windows based laptop for work. I handed that back a few months ago, and have been using a Raspberry Continue Reading
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Micro:bit v2
I’ve raved about the BBC micro:bit in past posts, and today I learn there will be a new 2020 version released in November. This new versions increases the storage, RAM and CPU, as well as adds a microphone and speaker. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, this Continue Reading
Migrating from IFTTT to Home Assistant
So the time has come, IFTTT, the IF This Then (do) That cloud based automation service, has decided to try and further monetise by charging customers for a pro account if they want more than a basic offering, or more than 3 automations, known as applets. I used IFTTT for Continue Reading
Playing with the BBC Micro:bit (part 1)
In my attempts to be the over eager encouraging dad, I bought my 6 year old daughter a BBC Micro:bit recently in an attempt to spark an interest in programming. Turns out it was quite a success, as she enjoys creating icon patterns which can then be loaded onto the Continue Reading
Calmer by Flare Audio
I like to think I’m quite savvy when it comes to advertising and marketing on the internet, I also run a pi-hole on an old Raspberry Pi model B to try and filter out most of the adverts on web pages. However I did come across an advert on Facebook Continue Reading
SD Card Corruption
Looks like slowergram suffered from SD corruption, possibly linked to the 16GB Kingston card known issue. I’m still in the process of restoring the site and getting SSL certificates back in place. Important: Make sure you have backups in place and they are tested periodically! I also took the opportunity Continue Reading
Tag.py – Simple host OS tags for Automation
Tags in IT are not new, they allow grouping of servers or applications and have been used for a while especially in virtualisation platforms such as VMware and public cloud compute platforms. However I have not seen anything to add tags to the host operating system, which could be queried Continue Reading
Beginners Guide to git
From the wikipedia page… Git (/ɡɪt/)[7] is a distributed version-control system for tracking changes in source code during software development.[8] It is designed for coordinating work among programmers, but it can be used to track changes in any set of files. I’m not a software developer by trade but I do dabble with website development, automation scripts and some useful little tools Continue Reading
Kubernetes cluster on a RPi (Part 3)
In the last part I deployed a very simple static web application, using the verification steps from the tutorial I was using. I combined this with some persistent NFS storage to preserve the data being served. I showed that this could be accessed from the cluster via curl from the Continue Reading
RPi – Cluster Case
As my collection of RPi4 k8s nodes has increased, I needed to bring a bit of order and tidiness to the setup. The best way to do this, I thought would be to house them in a stackable case. After a bit of searching I found this set from the Pi Continue Reading