Would I recommend Cubieboard No, probably not. Having one of these reminds me of the early days of the IBM-PC; except these are cheap and the early PCs cost a small fortune. What is the same is that you could spend a lot of time on it and almost but […]
Noisy whistle from the back This is a brand new 9.7″ Android tablet purchased via our local New Zealand on-line auction site, Trademe for about NZ$160. 9.7inch Allwinner A20 Dual core \1.5 Ghz, 1GB DDR3, 8GB NANDandroid 4.2 IPS From first power-on it made quite a loud high pitch whistling […]
Content Management System – CMS WordPress is a CMS, basically a group of PHP and other files running on web server and using a MySQL database. WordPress is apparently the most popular blogging system, used for small simple private web sites through to large complex corporate sites. PHP is a […]
Quad Core 1.6GHz ARM RK3188 A nice board, supplied with Android and the Linaro Linux distro installed. I chose this board because I wanted good performance, low power and LInux. I got a couple from SeeedStudio. Out of the box it boots Android. One of the apps is a boot […]
I’ve been using MPLAB-X on Kubuntu Linux on a laptop for quite a while now and converting projects over from the old Windows machine. Yesterday I went to work on a project started a couple of weeks ago and found that MPLAB-X which I believe runs in Netbeans, which is […]
Portable Power Meter I have added some information here and a store product here for the plug-in type power meter. These plug-in power meters are low cost and great for checking appliances etc. You can move them around, leaving connected to each appliance or a group of appliances for a […]
A Camera Project I have been looking at putting together a remote self powered wifi connected camera project for a while using a R-Pi, a couple of low cost web-cams and a wifi adaptor with directional antenna. The cameras and wifi adaptors have just arrived. The shop-display packaging looks like […]
WordPress Web-Server Failed The original web server I was using failed to restart after applying some routine updates. It was getting stuck in POST and not getting as far as trying to boot the OS. I swapped out the power supply then RAM, but the fault stayed with the motherboard. […]