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I spent this week learning about the newest AI technology, upgrading my PC, and (after many trials) taking it for a spin.
A quick guide to developing a small application.
AI Recipe Translation
A brief set of instructions on installing Raspberry Pi OS (Bookworm) on my Raspberry Pi 2b. It includes setting up Samba and Docker + Portainer. I was going to use the latest version (Trixie), but unfortunately there are no Docker sources for it right now.
A brief set of instructions on installing Armbian 26 on an ODROID-HC2 machine. It includes setting up Samba and Docker + Portainer. After nearly a decade of faithful service I was thinking about giving my aging ODROID-HC2.
Instructions for a quick start getting all my usual software and setup on a fresh Linux install.
I purchased a new JBOD enclosure to deal with my pile of small hard drives. Mergerfs and SnapRaid are used to provide parity and to merge the filesystems on Linux.
Moving into Windows 10 Installation
How I switched this website over to being hosted on Github.
The title of this post suggests that this is the first step into programming an FPGA, but that’s not quite true. We need to take a few steps back into the past to see the real truth. Jump back 31 years and you will find a very young version of me taking his first steps into the world of computing. My options at this point are limited in ways I wouldn’t be able to see for decades.
Building A Joystick
“It was one time…” (Fart in a Jar Martin) …what exactly do I have in this jar?