Okay, so working alone you often find yourself falling behind the curve.  I just got my DisplayLink working the other night and today I found this little device – a 2.8" TFT resistive touch screen for the Pi.  This is a much better solution than the DisplayLink for the trailer.  […]

DisplayLink vs TFT resistive touch screen for PiBox

A while back I made an official 0.5.0 release for PiBox which I announced on the Raspberry Pi Forums.  Since then I've made significant advances in preparing PiBox for use as a media server in my travel trailer.  Some of the features I've recently implemented include: Support for running as […]

PiBox: 0.5.0 released, many new features since

NOTE: This doesn't work!  It's missing all my recent saved mail.  Evolution saves the newer stuff in individual files with a ",S" suffix in a different directory.  Ugh.  I have Evolution. My Fedora 19 upgrade at work has gone badly.  I've reinstalled twice, back peddled to F18 (which didn't work […]

Evolution out, Thunderbird in (or how to migrate the quickly ...

I'm still a Fedora user, even after years of releases that seem to cause more headaches than they solve.  I understand it's a bleeding edge distro.  But at the current rate of change it's bound to bleed out by the end of the year.  Systemd is a pain for me […]

F19 upgrade: is this really getting better?

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

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 […]

Fire update – yeah, we’re close

Nicholas Copernicus.  I mention this only because I often name computers after scientists, physicists and engineers.  Over the years I’ve had a number of systems named copernicus.

Happy Birthday…

I mentioned in a previous post that my wife got me some more old books this past holiday.  Last year she got me Pat and the Iron Horse, the first book I remember reading as a kid.  This year, she found me some Big Little Books similar to the one […]

Big Little Books

After buying a variety of Wifi dongles (to use separately on a Pi, BeagleBoard and APC at the same time), a collection of USB extenders, three different keyboards, an extra powered USB hub and two new Raspberry Pi’s (which showed up unexpectedly yesterday even though Element14 made me think they […]

USB magic

If you’re playing with the idea of getting into embedded Linux, you might start with the most basic question:  what does embedded Linux mean?  In the not so distant past that was a little easier to define.  An embedded board was typically physically smaller or at least used a very […]

What makes it embedded Linux?

I’ve finally got a build for PiBox that supports a proper XBMC build.  The latter took some finagling to force a cross compile that didn’t pick up any bits and pieces from the build system.  So it’s all checked in and the builds placed on the SD card and it’s […]

PiBox / BeagleBox update: lost keyboard access?

Once again, a new year means new toys.  This holiday season, my wife got me an Acer C7 Chromebook, a pair of PowerLine ethernet adapters and a new printer.  We also got new phones.  On the non-techy side, she got me some classic Big Little books. The techy stuff has […]

A new beginning