Not long ago I setup 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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Bad Day For Electronics
My new GERTBoard an extension board for the Raspberry Pi GPIO interface arrived after a long wait this week. I brushed off my soldering iron all ready to put it to together only to find it had some surface mount components that I would need some more tools than just…
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Raspberry Pi Overclocking
Like just like alot of other people as soon as the Model B Raspberry Pi went on sale in March I eagerly rushed out and ordered one from Element 14. Due to production delays this didn’t arrive till the start of June.ย But given its size, specs and price I…
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