Pictures of a 20W led i found from an HK seller on eBay: impressive results! This led product could replace conventional lighting. At last led tech is mature enough to enter mass market.
Stepperino is a stepper motor controller based on arduino and cheap, commonly available components. This early version is capable of controlling an unipolar stepper motor (5, 6 or 8 wires) in full step mode and is the first step towards more sophisticated control to be achieved in firmware.
mt-daapd, aka firefly, allows to serve a music folder directly to any iTunes running in your home network. This is great to share music across the house or to keep a music dump folder aside from your main itunes library.
Avahi advertises the shares made available by netatalk to macs in your home network via bonjour, so that connecting to the file server means just clicking on its icon. This is how to set it up.
ssh enables remote terminal access to a linux box, and is the first step towards an headless machine. This is how to configure it for the first time in ubuntu
MDADM (multi disk admin) is the software implementation of RAID on linux. It can be used to take a bunch of disks and make them into a single, powerful drive. This leads to several advantages, depending on the raid configuration you choose to implement.
Build and configure a cheap NAS/HTPC box based around the new Intel Atom processor and Nvidia ION chipset. Low power consumption, your files everywhere, torrenting, automated backups, reproduction of 1080p video, all for under 400$: how could you do without?
If you are like me you spent all of your teen years listening to music like mad, with your best friend from the past: a big, bulky and weirdly shaped stereo system with speakers. Here’s mine. I never use it now: all my music is on the server or on my macbook, and thinking of [...]
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