Again, I stumbled over some problem... I need to draw some backup disk image of a headless bare metal server, to run a risky update of atlassian tools. And yes,…
How to build a Smart Home
Since everbody complains about smart homes are vendor lock in, too expensive, giving you data for free to some suspecting cloud provider,... I need to preset my smart home solution…
OrangePi 4G-IoT Complete Pack
Since Andorid 8.1 is quite slow on the OrangePi 4G-IoT, I decided to give Andorid 6 a try. OrangePi.org also provides mega.nz-links for these packages, which is quite inconvenient... Here…
Compiling Software on RAM-limited Multi-Core Systems
Since I often compile stuff on embedded ARM targets that are well equipped with processing power (Exinos Octa-Core), but are neglected regarding RAM (2G), I often facing the trade-off between…
OrangePi 4G-IoT Android 8.1 SDK
Same as with the 2G-IOT, OrangePi also provides a quite inconvenient way (through mega.nz) to get the Android SDKs for the 4G-IOT... Here are the torrents (tar.gz and tar.xz have…
OrangePi 2G-IOT Android 4.4 SDK
Getting the Android SDK Since I just struggled getting the Android SDK for my little OrangePi 2G-IOT, I felt responsible to share it using bittorrent. The main problems have been,…
Google ChromeCast’s (Smartphone) Independance Day
Have you ever been upset about your chromecast heavy depency on a smarthphone. So, nor do I, but my wife complained, since she always drops her phone somewhere else around…
Atlassian And New SSL Certificates
Or How CAs Drain Your Lifetime When you check my activity, you simply can see, that the past weeks my time for writing was quite limited. Since I had a…
Getting Started Embedded – Part II – The Embedded Project
Start embedded projects in an ordered way using the right tools For many people, "project" is a mysterious word and everybody understands something different about it. Sales department has a…
Getting Started Embedded – Part I – The Toolchain
Introduction For getting started with any embedded development, the most important piece is the toolchain. Many people suggest to use Keil, IAR, or some other fancy, professional, rocket-sience (and very…