Category Archives: Raspberry Pi

I finally set up my Raspberry Pi today, and it got me thinking which was cheaper, the Pi or a Thin Client. So I made an apples to oranges comparison, because under certain conditions, one or the other would be … Continue reading →

This was a fast year, time for reflection and to plan for next year. Almost finish with my pi project but came across another one that I thought of, a pi zero that can act as a personal firewall. Also … Continue reading →

Frustrating, but there is a bad cable in my batch. Wasted time trying to figure out why I could not get access to the usb ethernet interface. I put it away, it was a good brand too. Now to document … Continue reading →

These tags in boxes are getting harder to find. I am confident I will have enough. My search to find a box to contain them all continues though. I thought I finally found one at harbor freight but it had … Continue reading →

Was thinking about using Pi4 for sensors around the house, but did not realize it had a bunch of changes. Different Power Supply, different video, different case. May get one or two for a NAS, but I think that is … Continue reading →

I have about 60 tags and 9 Raspberry Pi’s. Of those 9 Pis two will be spares and considered development boxes. As I site here I count 3 of the 9 are here. On the way are 4 more. So … Continue reading →

They are in production. Got my Adafruit order in and now I am able to get another node up. Also a student expressed interest in coding, going to see what I can do for her. Lot of things happened today, … Continue reading →

I was able to get a standalong BLE Sentry working acting as an AP using hostapd and the USB0 interface. The magic that made the networking work was having nohook wpa_supplicant in /etc/dhcpcd.conf Another thing was switching from isc-dhcp to … Continue reading →

Spent a huge chunk of the day getting the additional functions needed in my blesentry project working. Hardware Clock Services DHCP Local USB Access Still need DNS (maybe)