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Installing Node.js on Raspberry Pi

As a continuation of posting tips and tricks about the Raspberry Pi I thought I would throw in some mini-posts that some people may find useful or interesting. Today’s topic? How…

2014.2.26 · 2 Minute Read

Fixing your Locale on Raspberry Pi

As a continuation of posting tips and tricks about the Raspberry Pi I thought I would throw in some mini-posts that some people may find useful or interesting. So without further…

2014.2.24 · 2 Minute Read

Installing Tup on Raspbian

There are always cool new technologies being developed every day. I was introduced to the Tup build system from one of my colleagues at Sifteo. Mostly for giggles, I’ve decided to…

2014.1.28 · 7 Minute Read

How to Make Dark Chocolate Almond Bark

If there is one thing I like in this world its almonds. If there’s another food that I really enjoy, it’s dark chocolate. So, why not have the best of both worlds? There was a…

2013.12.29 · 3 Minute Read

Blessings in Disguise

Sometimes, negative life altering events are blessings in disguise. They’re usually hard to think about and easily ignorable until they’re looking you right in the face. Sometimes…

2013.11.15 · 5 Minute Read

Combating Debt With Blood and Sweat

A recent discussion about school loans and the ability to pay them back triggered my desire to write this week’s blog post about debt. This subject is near and dear to my heart…

2013.11.8 · 8 Minute Read

Deconstructing the Swiffer

For an upcoming project I realized I needed something that wasn’t readily available (and cheap): a DC electric pump. If you have ever used a Swiffer before you will know that when…

2013.10.23 · 4 Minute Read

Raspberry Pi: Ruby + Nginx Setup

In this guide, I’m going to show you how to get a basic web server running on a Raspberry Pi. Sounds intriguing? Let’s get started! Set the timezone I found that the timezone was…

2013.10.2 · 3 Minute Read

How to Enable Password-less Login on Raspberry Pi

In this guide, I’m going to show you how setup password-less ssh login to your Raspberry Pi. Itching to get started? Lets go! Beam me up This guide assumes you have already loaded…

2013.9.30 · 4 Minute Read

Jekyll Local Preview with Absolute Links

Much like any other web app, there is usually a “production” version and “development” version. For instance, you can set the environment variable to load a Rails server into…

2013.9.2 · 2 Minute Read