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Site Upgrade
8/12/16 Began updatingupgrading/ site to new theme while deleting outdated posts. 8/14/16 Image links have been corrected. Download links are not restored. 8/15/16 Completed upgrade. Minor color/font adjustments remain but done for the most part.
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Completed build of 3D tank
Finished the build of the 3D tank. It took longer than I thought but here it is. The main differences between this tank and a previously PS3 controlled tank are: Its body was fashioned from CAD designed 3D parts giving … Continue reading
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Completed the print of the PiVE
Completed the 3D print of the PiVE. It’s a four cell build designed to hold a Pi3 in each cell and provide adequate cooling in support of distributed computing.
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Tagged cooling a raspberry pi, Pi 3, Pi3, Raspberry Pi, raspberry pi with fan, Ubuntu Mate
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Pi2–Tank/Crawler build
Received my tank/crawler chassis from China yesterday. Err, sort of: No instructions but should be straight forward. The is no lynch-pin in either track so the track must be mounted before the last wheel is installed. Hmm, but which wheel? … Continue reading
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How to build a Pi2
Just received a Pi2 and am in the process of building it. You can see how to do it HERE
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Server upgrade
Upgraded the FC 17 server to Ubuntu. FC 17 was “way out” of current Fedora release and Fedora changes too often. Ubuntu is a more stable “release” platform and should continue on until 2017 with ongoing support. Ubuntu’s implementation of … Continue reading
Baking a Raspberry Pi
All parts are here. I think I will start baking the Pi. See RASPI-baking the pie in the sidebar for ingredients and “baking” instructions.
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GPU (NVIDIA) installation on Fedora 17
This took a while. There were so many online guides and each had different results, not all positive. I tried Fedora 17, Centos 6, and Ubuntu 12.04LTS. Centos 6 was the easiest from a driver installation but the downside was … Continue reading
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Tagged BOINC, Driver Install, Fedora 17, GTX 650-ti, Linux, NVIDIA
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ICU (do you see me?) completed
Today I finished ICU (a Perl/TK inSSIder look alike). See “ICU” under “Linux Tools” in sidebar.
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Tagged inssider for perl, Tk::ChartLines, wirelss networking
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Hardware upgrade
I moved to new server hardware which required an install of a 64 bit OS and a resinstall/configuration/compile of most of the software I run. I am still finding “missed” requirements and address them as they occur. You too might find … Continue reading
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