A week ago the ‘Q’ key on my Dell E4310 laptop started to get sticky and hard to push. Some crumbs or lint had gotten under the key and was stopping it from depressing properly. In a rush to prise the key up so I could remove the offending bit…
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Inside the ZTE MF823 4G Dongle
A year ago, I built a Raspberry Pi based car computer to provide music, along with weather, location and speed information, while going on a road trip around Australia. At the start of the trip, the computer used an external USB Huawei K3715 3G Dongle for Internet connectivity. The system…
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RaspberryPi Car Computer 15,000km Later
It’s been over a year since I first started building my car computer with the Raspberry Pi. In the time since, it’s traveled over 15000km through four Australian states. The majority of the distance has been on dirt roads and tracks, pushing the hardware to its limits. As a whole…
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Restoring Github Code Streaks
Last week git hub announced it is removing the current and longest code streaks from users profile pages. The change is being touted as a push to give users a more “simplified interface”. Personally I think its a disappointing move, the profile pages for users on Github are already lacking…
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Car Computer Raspberry Pi 3 Upgrade
Recently I wrote about my car computer project based on the Raspberry Pi 2. The performance while acceptable in most situations, would drop and get noticeably sluggish during resource intensive activities such as processing large play queues or music directories. The free space around the Pi was constrained with the…
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Building a Raspberry Pi Car Computer
6 months ago I bought an 80 series Toyota Land Cruiser and the time since has been doing the car up in preparation for a trip around Australia. Since its release the 80 Series Land Cruiser has earned itself a reputation as a dependable and an almost unbeatable machine off…
Read MoreChanging the Linux Mint Login Background Images
Newer versions of Linux Mint use MintX as the default login screen greeter. By default it comes with a predefined collection of images. These display in the background and change periodically in a slide show type format. The default images are great but I wanted to add a personal touch…
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Raspberry Pi 2 Bitcoin Node
Not long ago I set up a Bitcoin node on a Debian Wheezy VPS to teach myself about Bitcoin and the blockchain in general. It was a great learning experience but the memory requirements of the Bitcoin software kept causing my VPS instance to run out of memory. So the…
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Running a Bitcoin Node on Debian Wheezy
Over the last few years I have keenly followed the rise of Bitcoin from its early days trading at around $8USD. I watched with interest when it made its sharp rise to $1200USD and then felt dismay with more recent decline back to around the $200USD mark. As a whole…
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Android Debug Bridge Tricks
The Android Debug Bridge ( ADB ) is an underutilised tool in my opinion. Over the last couple of months I have been doing a lot of work using Cordova and the Ionic Framework to create my field guide to NSW Marine Life for the Android platform. When I started…
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