Category Archives: Computing

How fast is the Raspberry Pi 4?

The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive, single board computer that is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. (https://www.raspberrypi.org/) In these last ten years it has taken the educational, hobbyist and maker markets by storm, because of its large open source … Continue reading

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Illiac IV and Raspberry Pi. Which is faster?

The Illiac IV (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILLIAC_IV) was the biggest and baddest supercomputer of its time in the 1970s. It was eventually installed at NASA Ames Research Center in the San Francisco Bay Area and was reported to have been 13 times faster … Continue reading

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Building an inexpensive “NAS”

I have too many computers and they all have disks or SSDs to store my stuff. It’s a pain to keep the versions in order. But it’s easier if you can keep only one copy and all the computers can … Continue reading

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Time Lapse Movies from Webcams

There are many generally accessible webcams in scenic places. They lend themselves well to time lapse movies as they usually point at the same place for days (years?) at a time and store snapshots at regular intervals. It’s pretty easy … Continue reading

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Music Streaming Device

In about 2003 I bought dedicated audio streaming device, a Roku SoundBridge, in order to listen to internet radio. In the intervening decade, dedicated audio streamers have become obsolete and Roku discontinued the device. There appear to be no replacements. … Continue reading

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Birdie Cam

Birdie-cam is deployed! But unfortunately the birdies have yet to show up. It’s still too early for them to arrive, but now we’re ready. Each year some finches build a nest on top of outdoor speakers that we have on … Continue reading

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