Linux How to Install HandBrake on Ubuntu How to install HandBrake on Ubuntu, resolve the dreaded "unable to locate package handbrake-gtk" and missing "libx264-152" errors, and update Ubuntu repository distributions.
Linux How to Upgrade Ubuntu to 19.10 Eoan Ermine Beta The development release of Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) beta is out today. Follow these steps to upgrade to the newest Ubuntu release: Update Your Current Distribution1. Update your package list: sudo apt-get
Linux Adding a Portable USB Monitor to Ubuntu: How to Set Up the DisplayLink Driver Dual monitors are essential for productivity. Now you can add a second monitor on-the-go with an portable USB monitor. In this tutorial we cover how to add a USB monitor in Ubuntu using the DisplayLink driver as well as how to create an alias in Ubuntu Linux.
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Projects Project Management and Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space A simple project management guide for developing your own engineering projects with Arduino, RPi, ESP32, or anything else you can think of.
Servers Preparing Your Server for Vacation - The Unattended Server Access Checklist Preparing Your Server for Vacation – The Unattended Server Access Checklist. 1) Check VPN Connection: 2) Check Reverse SSH Tunnel Backup: 3) VNC Server Available on Backup Devices: 4) Test Automatic Server Shutdown When Running on UPS: 5) Test Server WOL from Backup Device
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Arduino Expand Your Arduino’s Storage with an External EEPROM Part II: Reading from the AT24C256 – A Tutorial in How to Use the I2C Protocol Continued We first began our journey into learning the I2C protocol three weeks ago. In that post, we learned to write to an external EEPROM over the I2C protocol using nothing more than a
Programming Pointers, Arrays, and Functions in Arduino C Now that we’ve completed our introduction to pointers, I had really wanted to move on and wrap up our section on using an EEPROM with the I2C protocol today. However, I feel
Programming Variables, Pointers, and Indirection in Arduino C Before we continue on with learning about the I2C protocol and our EEPROM project, we need to discuss variables: what they are and what goes on behind the scenes. Knowledge of how variables
Docker A Short Introduction to Troubleshooting Docker Networks I recently just built an unRAID rig which has now been deployed to my DMZ. It’s great, but something I have been struggling with is that periodically my FileZilla docker container will
Linux How to Share Part of Your Plex Libraries without Giving Users Complete Access to Your Full Library: Symbolic Links with Plex and Docker Containers By now you've discovered some of the many shortcomings of Plex. One of which is that you can't share individual videos with your friends or family- you have to give them access to
Arduino Expand Your Arduino's Storage with an External EEPROM (AT24C256): A Tutorial in How to Use the I2C Protocol In a previous post, we covered how to expand your number of analog inputs by using an external ADC over the SPI bus. Today I want to demonstrate how to use the I2C
Arduino Interfacing an 8-bit Microcontroller with a 10-bit Device over the SPI Protocol In Simon Monk's Programming Arduino Next Steps: Going Further with Sketches, Simon introduces the SPI protocol by way of interfacing the Arduino with a 10-bit ADC (specifically the MCP3008). Unfortunately, by choosing a
Linux How to Upgrade to Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) Beta (or any other Ubuntu Beta Version) Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) Beta is available today! I do this so infrequently that I always have to look up how to do it, so for future reference I'm tossing my notes
Arduino How to Fix ESP32 Compiler Error in Arduino IDE: /heltec/esp32/tools/esptool/esptool.py No module named serial.tools.list_ports So you've installed one of the various ESP32 board managers for the Arduino IDE. You go to compile your code and you get the following message: Trackback arduino line 35, in <module&
Linux How To Update/Install FileZilla on Ubuntu FileZilla is an incredibly useful FTP client for transferring files between your workstation and servers. In this tutorial, I will walk you through updating/installing FileZilla on Ubuntu without using the repository. In
Servers Setup an NGINX Reverse Proxy on a Raspberry Pi (or any other Debian OS) If you’re running a web server out of your homelab (and you should), you really should consider running your servers behind an NGINX reverse proxy. Honestly, this should be the first thing
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Getting Off the Ground Recently, I decided I wanted to take better notes on my own learning and hopefully help others in the process. Enter this blog. I’ve been doing development for a while; I even
