Retrogaming: homemade bartop
The story began some years ago, when I built from scratch a “true” fullsized arcade cabinet (see the gallery). This Mame Cab was pretty cool, with nice arcade feeling : CRT …
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Experiences, technical notes and experiments around open source, Linux, homelab, automation, hardware, hacking and maker projects.
Deploying Saltstack : master and minion (archlinux on ARM)
As part of a project to upgrade my servers (Sheevaplug and Cubieboards), I wanted to automate most of the OS and software deployments. Moreover the idea was also to factorize configurations …
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Project : update of OpenHab binding for Zibase
Following my original project of the Zibase Binding, I updated it for the recent 1.9 branch. The pull request has been sent to OpenHab team. While this update is being reviewed, you can find …
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Linux : sheevaplug as a perfect NAS - Reloaded
Since more than 2 years now, I’m using a Sheevaplug as a low power NAS (see this article). Until now, I was using a Debian 6 “squeeze”, with an old 2.6 kernel. I had some …
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Hardware / Linux : Retro Boy - portable gaming console with an Odroid-w and a GameBoy case
I have seen some guys who put a raspberry pi in a Game Boy case (eg. here or here). Being a fan of retro-gaming, I wanted to do the same for me and my children. But I wanted something a …
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Arduino : HTTP driven power switches and UART to telnet gateway
As explained in a previous post, I made a small custom ARM servers bay with 3 cubieboards. Until now, switching power or using UART connection for debugging (headless servers only) required …
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Linux : Monitoring And supervision with Zabbix
Here is some notes of my own Zabbix monitoring system installation (debian based). It has been done since a while now, but I never took the time to finalize this post. However, it can still …
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Linux : CIFS module for linksys E4200 (candyhouse) debian kernel
As an owner of the excellent Linksys (Cisco) E4200 router, I use a Debian Linux distribution on it (more info on http://www.wolfteck.com/projects/candyhouse/). Unfortunately, the given …
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Linux : cubieboard 1 & 2 headless server optimized custom kernel 3.4.103
After some crashes running OpenHab on one of my cubieboards with a freshly installed Oracle’s JRE 1.8 and several tests, I started to suspect the kernel. It was time to test a new …
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Project : Openhab binding for Zibase
As an home automation passionate, I have some parts of my home which are automated (heating, lights, roller shutter,…). I’m using a French box from Zodianet which name is Zibase …
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