Odroid HC1 based swarm cluster in a 19" rack
Since several months now, I’m running my applications on a home made cluster of 4 Odroid HC1 running docker containers orchestrated by Swarm. Of course all HC1 are powered by my …
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Odroid N1 as NAS in a 19" rack
[caption id=“attachment_1755” align=“alignright” width=“300”] Odroid N1[/caption] There is some months ago now, I was offered an ODROID N1 by Hardkernel …
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Arduino driven 5v and 12v Smartpower
I was updating my personal home “pico data center” in order to get more processing power (swarm cluster) and arrange all my ARM based servers in a cabinet. I wanted to use only …
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X-Craft Hovercraft battery replacement with LiPo
My son bought a X-Craft Hovercraft (http://www.rcmania.com/fastlane-rc-x-craft-hovercraft). It was cheap (end of life) and announced with a “12v power” where a lot of similar …
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PiBoy Micro : a Raspberry pi zero based mini portable retrogaming
Yes, one more retrogaming device ! This time, I wanted to try a smaller form factor, as near as possible to the GameBoy Micro. I also modelized my own enclosure and 3d printed it. The design …
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Custom Arduino Shield that provides MQTT to Rflink
Since a couple of years, I used to use a french home automation box : the Zibase. In its time, it was the only one to support a large number of protocols and to allow a some degrees of …
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Another NAS with a BananaPI
Since a few years now, I used to use a Sheevaplug as a NAS (see /linux-sheevaplug-perfect-nas and /linux-sheevaplug-perfect-nas-reloaded). The Sheevaplug was running fine, but I needed some …
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GamOdroiD C0 : an Odroid based portable retrogaming
Yet another homemade portable gaming console ! This one is the sequel to the first one I built. On the first build, I used an Odroid-w (pi clone) and a brand new GameBoy case. For this new …
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Saltstack : state for monitorix + ASD to monitor docker (Archlinux)
As I’m using monitorix to monitor all my servers, I naturally did a dedicated state for saltstack. I also coupled this with a state to install Anything-sync-Daemon which is an …
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Saltstack : state for SDCard / flash storage optimization (Arm SBC)
All my servers are small Arm SBCs that use SDCards or eMMC for storage. For all of them, I use the same optimization state that basically do 2 things : Change commit and barrier settings of …
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