Mini projects on various hardware devices I have (like gameboys, raspberry pi’s and routers)
ddwrt custom prompt in ssh. This post will show you a quick way to set a custom prompt when you log in to your dd-wrt router using the web-ui. The advantage of adding your scripts here is that if you don’t have permanent storage (eg a usb drive plugged in) Read more…
I ordered a Pibow Ninja Coupe a few days ago, and got it delivered to work this morning. This post is full of photos, unboxing the case and assembling the case with the raspberry pi inside it! The case arrived at work this morning At home, waiting to be opened Read more…
I have ordered some things for my raspberry pi, I have a raspberry pi case, an SD card, a mini usb wifi adaptor and a usb cable for power. Raspberry pi case Pibow ninja coupe The case I went for is a PiBow Ninja Coupe I like that the GPIO Read more…
My brother and his wife got me a raspberry pi for my birthday :D So far I haven’t decided what to do with it, But I have lots of ideas – I could turn it into a gameboy (though I already have a couple of handheld retro gaming machines – Read more…
My New HomeLab Gigabyte Brix – 8 GB HyperX DDR3 ram for now (another 8GB on its way) Another 8GB has been ordered, bringing me up to 16gb. I’ll be upping the available ram for my Kali install and upgrading my windows 8 to windows 10! – 16GB usb drive Read more…
The data in the Western Digital MyBook drives is stored in a raid on the 4th partition of the drive. Mounting the western digital mybook NAS to recover data in another linux install isn’t for beginners. But here is the process: 1) Remove the drive from the western digital NAS. Read more…
I got a good few tech items for christmas this year (xmas 2014): 1) pxp3 slim-station I got one for my brother, and my girlfriends sister got one for me :D It’s basically a SEGA game-gear. 2) Android TV box It runs jelly-bean and has a dual core cpu. I Read more…
The LG 34um95 yosemite resolution bug is pretty annoying. I have an lg 34um95 screen – it runs at 3440×1440 – its a great screen, unless you have upgraded to OSX Yosemite. This issue is now fixed on Yosemite 10.10.2 – if you are using a macbook air, then you Read more…
I had an old usb harddrive caddy sitting about that only worked with IDE drives. I also had an old usb to ide (both 2.5 and 3.5 drives) and sata drives with no power supply. I also have a variable PSU. I have a pile of old harddrives that I Read more…
I have a little hp mini 210 that I decided to mount an external wifi antenna on. here are some pics of the Hp mini 210 external wifi aerial mod and some little descriptions to go with it. The main aim of the mod was to get an rp-sma connector Read more…
My aluminium mac is dirty. Time to clean it. The screen is easy – I have the cloth from the box. I just rub it with that – the screen attracts fluff (thats usually 1 pixel in size). There are no fingerprints. I have a screen wiper thing that I Read more…