Over the last 3 months I started tracking a list of daily task that I would like to adhere to. One of those tasks is 1 hour of social media per day. At first this was easy to do. I broke my Samsung S8 phone and had to switch to an old iPhone 7 we…
Over the last few years, I decided to make my “Outdoor automation” a little more permanent and indoors. The Pi lived outside in my garage or screwed to a floor joist in my basement. My goat was to provide the same functionality but in a safer case, and have it permanently installed. The tasks the…
In the following tutorial I will explain how to install MyBB 1.8.12 on Ubuntu Server. I will be doing this from the command line so no GUI needed. Download the MyBB package. You will want to get the latest version of MyBB. By default Ubuntu does not come with unzip. Install that now. Unzip the…
Because my office is currently under construction I didn’t have access to my primary desktop machine that runs VMware Workstation. I needed to spin up a Ubuntu Server box to do some testing. It has been a few years since running VirtualBox but I decided to give it a go on my Mac Book Pro….
Final received my first Raspberry Pi. I have had an idea for years about what I wanted to do with one. Automated sprinkler system. 2 summers in a row my lawn has burnt to a frazzle. I have dealt with automated sprinklers before so why not build my own system! What is needed: RaspberryPi Relay…