Introduction – It can start with an email In this case, it did. The folks over at Sparkfun sent me product offering email that had an interesting breakout, the FLIR Dev Kit. This is essentially a camera module that senses in the infra red spectrum. They mention some details about the breakout on their website, so go check it out if you want more details. Purpose – They have an app for that…no, seriously they do. A few months back I…
Introduction – I have a book…sorta One of the goals of this quarter, as well as the following quarters, is to publish the posts into a book format. My ebook is in draft on Leanpub. I have to admit the markup language and procedures for uploading the content took a bit to get used to. Once I got past that, the content from the posts were a snap to get on the book. Purpose – Whats the big deal about a book?…
Introduction – CactiPi isn’t as hard to eat as you might think. In my earlier post, the RPi command and control features have been an excellent way to show capabilities. Webmin showed how complex admin tasks can be done graphiclly, without the need for a desktop environment. Smokeping was introduced, but not covered in detail. This tool is usefull in identifying host availability on the network, but it doesn’t go much further. This is were Cacti comes into play. This is…