The BIOS and BIOS configuration are stored in non-volatile memory (a Flash memory chip).  If you badly configure the BIOS, like I did, you can lock out [...]

Its been some time since I packaged any software for distribution. You can’t beat learning by doing to blow out the cobwebs and since this was [...]

Guiding your mount is pretty much essential for long exposure photography. lin_guider is one of the best solutions for using a guiding camera available to [...]

Out-of-the-box Distro Astro has Gnome Desktop Sharing installed. This is great for remote access to your astro-laptop to control telescope, mount and [...]

My new sit-on-the-couch device The Chuwi Hi8 is a very nice 8 inch display dual-boot Windows 10 and Android 4.4 tablet. This is an Intel Atom based tablet [...]

Looking at the circuit diagram for the touch screen interface board: there is an LED backlight that is intended for PWM (pulse width modulation) control [...]

The Infrared Module that I chose was a TruOpto part HRM138BB5100 available from Rapid (PN: 55-0902). I chose it for operating at 3.3V. The circuit is [...]

My IR module was designed for use with an embedded Linux system. I chose the Olimex A10-OLinuXino-LIME as it looked powerful and a good starting point for [...]

The goal was to make a compact IR decoder that processes the signals from a TV-remote and gives a Linux based embedded computer the codes.