I resurrected a couple C.H.I.Ps [https://doyleyoung.net/c-h-i-p-resurrection/] a while back and they have just been gathering dust since. I decided to try out the latest Pi-hole [https://pi-hole.net] because it has been years since I played with it. I was digging through my single board computer bag and found a C.H.I.P. and decided...
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I have been trying to reduce my usage of the big 5 tech companies because they've become too creepy with customer tracking and other too-big-for-the-public-good behaviors. I want to host as many of the services I use as possible on my own systems. I prefer open source, free software but will gladly pay for a system from a smaller company that I...
I finished my PiCam project [https://www.doyleyoung.net/raspberry-pi-zero-motion-capture-camera/], and after it was live for a few days, I was bothered by what a pain it is to view images and video. This little system already has a lot going on, so I wanted to create a simple, nearly static website to view images and video. I decided to go with...
I got a couple C.H.I.P. computers during their Kickstarter campaign [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer/description] . I also got one of their HDMI "DIPs" [http://www.chip-community.org/index.php/DIPs]. I did a few things on these little guys, but never built a project out of them. They were living in my pile of SBCs [https:...
In my quest to make use of all my single board computers [https://www.doyleyoung.net/do-something-will-all-these-sbcs/], there was one project that just needed a bit of modernization. Back in 2014, I created a Quake 3 server [https://www.doyleyoung.net/beaglebone-quake-3-server/] using a BeagleBone Black [https://www.doyleyoung.net/beaglebone-black/] (BBB). This little machine traveled with me for quite a while,...