Awhile back, I heard about a raspberry pi project called Pi-hole, which is basically a network-wide adblocker. The way it works is that when a page like an example speedtest.net has a lot of ads on its main page. Which speedtest.net asks the ad provider for the content to display, but what Pi-Hole does is…
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Retro-Pi – Raspberry Pi Project
Recently I heard about an OS called Retro-Pi, which is an OS for playing retro games. At first, I thought that it would come pre-installed with some games like PacMan, discovered, unfortunately, it does not come with pre-installed games. But you can download ROM files online and upload them to the SD card, which the raspberry…
Motion Eye OS – Raspberry Pi Project
Recently for Christmas, I had received three Raspberry Pi zero’s. Since then, I had not done anything with them. Until yesterday, when I found out about a camera OS for Raspberry Pi, called ‘Motion Eye OS,’ I looked up some tutorials and got started installing it. First, I prepared an SD Card, formatted it, and…
Setting up Ethernet
I have heard from most computer professionals that ethernet is much better than using wifi for home computers because of the speed compared to wifi speeds. Today, I installed an Ethernet switch underneath my desk. First, I ordered an Ethernet switch from amazon (Amazon Link), and then I also ordered a 15 foot long cat7…
Sketch of Computer Storage Sizes
Imagine one dollar representing one byte of computer information. Use this example as a visual for the relative computer storage sizes:
Raspberry Pi 400 Retro Keyboard
Raspberry pi recently announced its latest model of the Raspberry Pi. It’s called the Raspberry Pi 400. It’s not clear that it is available for purchase yet. I heard about it first from a podcast called SQPN that discusses technology. It is basically a Raspberry Pi put into a keyboard, so the Raspberry Pi 400…
Hoverboard?
Two Saturdays ago was “yard sale day,” and my Mom, my little sister Sophie, and Johanna went garage sailing with my friend Adrian’s family, and one of the things that Adrian got was a free hoverboard. I had assumed that this hoverboard was broken, so I asked if I could borrow it to try to fix…
Ender-3 Has Arrived
Yesterday the Creality Ender-3 arrived. In a post I did last week. I explained that I had ordered an Ender-3 off of eBay. It took about a week to arrive. I was excited to open the big box and start assembling. Assembling the printer was easier than I had expected, after a few bumps of…
Using an iPod Touch as a OctoCam?
On my last blog post, just as I was about finished, I found a link to my old blog post called “PrintrBot,” I noticed that in that blog post, I had taken a time-lapse video of a print. It looked better quality then the Octoprint camera I have now, so I thought it would look…
New Ender 3
Today I ordered an Ender-3 3D printer off of eBay. My brother Nicholas (who let me borrow his Ender-3 and his PrintrBot back in march) is going to take the printer back, and so he helped me find another one on eBay, Me and Nicholas found an ender-3 on eBay for about $200 by a…