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PiBox was built as a proof of concept for a variety of purposes. One of those was to serve media in my trailer when we go camping. I use omxplayer to play videos that are provided over SMB between a server and a player system. That works okay but the […]

Streaming just got easier, with DLNA and Roku

Sat January 09, 2016 in General / Linux / Movies / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Video tagged DLNA / DVD / Fedora / Linux / music / Open Source / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Roku / Video

What do you get when an old software geek tries to learn about electricity? The same thing you get when you teach a 5 year old not to put their hands on the red coils on the stove. Experience through interactivity. Today’s lesson: fat wires vs thin wires. I’ve been […]

Learning about power

Thu December 24, 2015 in Arduino / General / Hardware / Holiday lighting / PiBox / Raspberry Pi tagged amazon / custom boards / gauge wire / Geek / graphics / thin wires

This past weekend I took PiBox out in the trailer for a field trial. The box was mounted under a cabinet with power and HDMI wrapped around to a 7″ HDMI-input monitor. Power on worked fine and the system came right up. But not everything worked as expected. Here is […]

PiBox field trial results

Thu July 02, 2015 in General / PiBox tagged Android / BUI / digital TV / GTK+ / HDMI / HDMI cables / HDMI switch / Media Player / Media Server / PiBox / wifi

I’ve been using Apache 2.2 for quite some time. Lately I’ve noticed CentOS and other distros using Apache 2.4. The new Apache breaks a bunch of stuff, as does newer php. One thing that needed changing is a switch in directory listing tools. I have an archive on my web […]

Apache 2.4 changes

Wed June 10, 2015 in General (updated 3254 days ago)

When I was just getting started with embedded development I found many tutorials on how to perform cross compiles required setting up some shell functions and variables before working on builds. This is a necessity for embedded work because the embedded build for the target platform won’t use the same […]

cdtools, because who has just one project?

Mon April 06, 2015 in General / Linux / Raspberry Pi / Software Development tagged angstrom / ARM / buildroot / embedded development / Fedora / git / java / kernel / Linux / metabuild / Metabuilds / OpenEmbedded / packaging / PiBox / rpm / toolchain / yocto (updated 3254 days ago)

I can no longer push to gitorious so I tried to run the import of all my repos (and there are alot) into GitHub. This failed miserably. Only two of 34 repos were imported. Some of the repos actually got created on GitLab but there is nothing in them. So […]

Migrating from gitorious – it sucks.

Wed April 01, 2015 in General (updated 3324 days ago)

Last November I left CEI where I had worked for 8 1/2 years. I had plenty saved up to cover me to the next gig. So out went the resumes into the void and we waited for the holidays to pass to get an idea of how things have changed […]

Life update: new gig @ HGST

Fri February 06, 2015 in General / Personal tagged bootloader / colorado springs / disney / disneyworld / HGST / RPod

Needed some place to note this short one-liner for generating a changelog between version releases with git. git log v0.5...v0.6 --pretty=format:'%s' The output looks something like this. RM #225: Fix xcc to build when gmp is already installed. This is a back-rev'd patch from Crosstool-NG that required no changes so […]

git changelog generation: one liner

Sun October 27, 2013 in General

First, let me say that the fire is long gone and we were never evacuated. It was stressful waiting around for them to decide if we needed to go or not, but in the end the fire moved away from us and not closer to us. Now we have everything […]

PiBox: Another long break ends and new work begins

Sun July 07, 2013 in General / Linux / PiBox / Raspberry Pi (updated 3957 days ago)

The Black Forest Fire is north and east of us. We’re currently in voluntary evacuation mode, which is the second level of evacuation out of three. Next mode is mandatory. However, we’re on the far south side of the box that marks the voluntary evacuation. And we’ve got a lot […]

Michael J. Hammel

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