Raspberry regulator run-off Happy Pi Day everyone! Ever since I got my first Raspberry Pi (and before; I never did anything with battery-powered applications for the Beaglebone but I certainly had some in mind) I've been
Test platform: linear regulator versus switcher There’s little doubt about the question of efficiency: linear regulators are less efficient than switching regulators. Though I have no doubt that someone can find an example of a very efficient linear
Beaglebone FreeBSD on the Beaglebone Black An American-made Open Source Hardware computer deserves some good old American-made freedom in its operating system. Steve swaps Linux out for Berkeley Unix.
DIY Infrared Inhaler Back when Sam and I were running SumoBot matches as corporate teambuilding events at TechShop San Francisco one of the common issues the participants encountered was a failure of the bot to detect
Atticus Wrecks USB knob rescue One of the devices which Atticus destroyed a while back is a favorite, even though I don't use it often. It's my Griffin PowerMate, which is, in a word, a knob. Don't get
Licensed to filament This afternoon I took the Type A Machines Safety and Basic Usage class at TechShop San Francisco. This means that I am now permitted to reserve and use TechShop’s 3D printers for
Navigation error In which the Positronic team enjoys a pair of toy remote control quadcopters. They turned out to be a little harder to control than anticipated.
Coding A kilobyte of comments Some say that well-written code needs very few comments, and that the higher the ratio of comments to code, the poorer the code is likely to be. They might be right.
Security SSL on a Beaglebone Black: balancing performance with security (Originally posted to Monochromatic Outlook) I’ve recently set up a local server on a Beaglebone Black, which is a credit-card sized computer with a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor. I’m using it
