I resurrected a couple C.H.I.Ps a while back and they have just been gathering dust since. I decided to try out the latest Pi-hole 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 it should work as well as anything....
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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, 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 mustache templates because they make...
I got a couple C.H.I.P. computers during their Kickstarter campaign. I also got one of their HDMI "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, so they needed some love. My first hurdle with getting these systems back online was that...
In my quest to make use of all my single board computers, there was one project that just needed a bit of modernization. Back in 2014, I created a Quake 3 server using a BeagleBone Black (BBB). This little machine traveled with me for quite a while, but it was taking up extra space in my already stuffed backpack and so it...