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Arduino driven 5v and 12v Smartpower

Posted on August 23, 2018 by jit

I was updating my personal home “pico data center” in order to get more processing power (swarm cluster) and arrange all my ARM based servers […]

Hardware, Projects

X-Craft Hovercraft battery replacement with LiPo

Posted on August 8, 2018 by jit

My son bought a X-Craft Hovercraft (http://www.rcmania.com/fastlane-rc-x-craft-hovercraft). It was cheap (end of life) and announced with a “12v power” where a lot of similar products […]

Hardware

PiBoy Micro : a Raspberry pi zero based mini portable retrogaming

Posted on February 19, 2018 by jit

Yes, one more retrogaming device ! This time, I wanted to try a smaller form factor, as near as possible to the GameBoy Micro. I […]

Hardware, Linux, Projects, retrogaming, Uncategorized

Custom Arduino Shield that provides MQTT to Rflink

Posted on November 16, 2017 by jit

Since a couple of years, I used to use a french home automation box : the Zibase. In its time, it was the only one […]

C/C++, Hardware, Projects

Another NAS with a BananaPI

Posted on November 8, 2017 by jit

Since a few years now, I used to use a Sheevaplug as a NAS (see https://www.bluemind.org/linux-sheevaplug-perfect-nas and https://www.bluemind.org/linux-sheevaplug-perfect-nas-reloaded). The Sheevaplug was running fine, but I needed some more […]

Linux, Network

GamOdroiD C0 : an Odroid based portable retrogaming

Posted on August 26, 2017 by jit

Yet another homemade portable gaming console ! This one is the sequel to the first one I built. On the first build, I used an Odroid-w […]

Hardware, Linux, Projects, retrogaming

Saltstack : state for monitorix + ASD to monitor docker (Archlinux)

Posted on February 16, 2017 by jit

As I’m using monitorix to monitor all my servers, I naturally did a dedicated state for saltstack. I also coupled this with a state to […]

Linux, ShellScript

Saltstack : state for SDCard / flash storage optimization (Arm SBC)

Posted on February 13, 2017 by jit

All my servers are small Arm SBCs that use SDCards or eMMC for storage. For all of them, I use the same optimization state that […]

Linux

Retrogaming: homemade bartop

Posted on January 9, 2017 by jit

The story began some years ago, when I built from scratch a “true” fullsized arcade cabinet (see the gallery). This Mame Cab was pretty cool, […]

Hardware, Projects, retrogaming

Deploying Saltstack : master and minion (archlinux on ARM)

Posted on September 23, 2016 by jit

As part of a project to upgrade my servers (Sheevaplug and Cubieboards), I wanted to automate most of the OS and software deployments. Moreover the […]

Linux

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