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Migrating from HTTP to HTTPS with certbot
The first official PiBox meetup has been scheduled for Wednesday, January 18, 2017 in room B2 at Library 21c. I’ll be doing a demo of the PiBox Media Center and going over the same slides I presented at the Colorado Springs Open Source Software Meetup. Then we’ll open it to […]
First PiBox Meetup
The value of an over-exuberant penchant for experimentation and fiddling should never be underestimated, if only because it helps measure the onset of age-associated mental debilitation. In other words, everyone needs a hobby. Or two. Or ten.
What to do in 2017
Themes with Cairo were always a goal, but never implemented. Now, with PiClock, they are a reality.
PiBox: PiClock themes using Cairo
Back in October I started work on a new app for PiBox: an XM radio player. The hardware is an XMPCR, a device sold in the early 2000’s that connected over USB to a PC. The device didn’t last long. I think there was some concern that people would steal […]
PiBox: XM radio app (PiXM) and wifi scanning in PNC
I don’t enter many contests. I see little value in getting something for free. It’s far more interesting to earn them. But every now and then something catches my eye that seems worth the minor effort of a big reward. So a while back, perhaps back in September or so, […]
Halloween haul from Arrow
PiBox has a new project web site: https://www.piboxproject.com. I created this to help give the project a more professional appearance in order to entice new developers to the project. The wiki remains the location of meaningful developer information. And I created a Meetup group too: http://www.meetup.com/PiBox-Embedded-Developers My goal is to […]
New PiBox web site and Meetup group
It’s official: PiBox will be at the Colorado Springs Maker Faire on October 15th. The Maker Faire will be held at Library 21c which is just North of the Northeast corner of the Chapel Hills Mall. Last year saw around 6300 attendees and turnout is expected to be even better […]
PiBox @ CS Maker Faire, Oct 15th
So here’s my use case: I need a camera that is easily positioned away from the Raspberry Pi and can stream via mjpeg-streamer. Not huge requirements. Here is why the Raspicam doesn’t fit that use case. I’ve received a camera with the wrong cable from a Chinese distributor via Amazon. […]
Why a Raspicam isn’t better than a USB webcam.
Programming the ESP8266 is rather easy. I’m using the Arduino libraries and the makeEspArduino build system because I like to use the command line, not IDEs. Stock libraries provide everything you’d expect: Wifi setup, web servers, DNS support, etc. There’s even a library that allows you to boot into the […]
ESP8266: its’ all about power
I’ve been fiddling with an ESP8266 this week that is being powered by an FTDIBasic board from SparkFun. The setup is simple enough and it’s easy enough to get a simple web server running on it but I don’t have a power switch so the whole thing is powered through […]