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Workshops, SAR, Veterans Day, and Lasers
Many things happening over the past few days. A Raspberry Pi workshop being planned, acceptance to VASSAR, Veterans Day, and learning how to use the Laser Cutter. Read More
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Ceph: A Distributed NAS Solution for the Budget-Conscious
Initially considering a Raspberry Pi with ZFS for a budget-friendly NAS solution, I discovered limitations in scalability and recovery time. Ceph, a distributed file system, emerged as a more promising alternative. Ceph offers features like automatic data replication, recovery, and rebalancing, making it ideal for building a robust and scalable NAS system starting out current… Read More
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The Path to NAS
Follow along as I start to spec out the cheapest NAS system in my journey to have multiple backup servers to ensure that data is not lost to drive failures and protected after theft. Read More
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Visionary Pi Digital Signage
I finish up the digital signage software to have a working demonstration to show to a client, to determine if it meets their needs. Read More
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Raspberry Pi Digital Signage
I look into various services and projects that offer digital signage kiosks on a low budget. Most start out at $10 or more per month, and free versions are fairly limited in capability or just bad. I then start creating my own service. Read More
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Exposing Services
This is a walk through, describing a problem, reporting a bug, and the steps taken to work-around the issue. In short, I can’t use my clipboard on an unsecured website in my private network. I assign IP addresses vid DHCP, open up ports in a few routers, call my ISP to allow requests to my… Read More
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LLM’s and RAG
Working through LLM’s, looking at RAG, and more of the features of Open WebUI such as adding custom prompts, tools, importing knowledge, etc. I start looking at buying a new machine, a small form factor, then a normal size, but settle for upgrading to a Raspberry Pi 5 with an AI chip (Hailo 8L), but… Read More
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Setting up LLM on Raspberry Pi
My adventures setting up a large language model (LLM) on Raspberry Pi, and updating the AI to have knowledge Read More