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Site Upgrade

Posted on August 12, 2016 by ron

8/12/16  Began updatingupgrading/ site to new theme while deleting outdated posts. 8/14/16  Image links have been corrected.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

Posted on May 21, 2016 by ron

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

Posted on March 28, 2016 by ron

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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Pi2–Tank/Crawler build

Posted on June 4, 2015 by ron

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

Posted on May 30, 2015 by ron

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

Posted on September 9, 2013 by ron

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 →

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Baking a Raspberry Pi

Posted on July 5, 2013 by ron

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

Posted on December 27, 2012 by ron

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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ICU (do you see me?) completed

Posted on July 8, 2012 by ron

Today I finished ICU (a Perl/TK  inSSIder look alike).   See “ICU” under “Linux Tools” in sidebar.

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Hardware upgrade

Posted on January 15, 2011 by ron

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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