Why am I showing you a picture of a cracked-screen phone? Well because this particular phone is a bust Oukitel K10000, the phone with the world’s longest-lasting battery and an excellent workhorse. My friend Aidan gave me this (rather than chucking it away) some time ago and it has been…
Category: Debian
The Orange Pi Zero
Those of you who read my stuff will know that I’ve never been impressed by the Orange Pi boards – the utter lack of communication from the company really is stunning and initially the boards used to get very hot – but then came Armbian and all that changed –…
Alexa Enlightenment
Last updated November 16, 2016: In a recent blog entry I told you how we’d been playing with Amazon Echo (Alexa) and got it working. Well, nearly. It turns out that what SEEMS obvious in the system is not all it seems – but read on as we’ve had success.…
Banana Pi M2
Updated December 13, 2016: Technically referred to as the BP1-M2+ I received this Banana Pi board in the post this morning. It is SMALL – that is, the same width but just a tad wider than the FriendlyArm M1 and M2. But there the similarity ends. Firstly this little thing…
A Brighter Node Red
Just today – an upgrade notice for Node-Red appeared in my in-box. Upgrade details are here. What is Node-Red? Details here – if you’re not using it or at least investigating it – you may be missing out. Now, the support guys (Google groups here) are VERY clear about required…