Fixing Makita 18V battery lockout with Open Battery Information
Allan Note: If you are here for the download from the video on the Adafruit Trinket M0 please scroll to the bottom of the post for the download. I recently ran…
Raspberry Pi 64-bit Linux Gentoo install
Revised 2025-01-30 This post accompanies the YouTube videos below: Full install, part 1https://youtu.be/cL9l2uAFYck Full install, part 2https://youtu.be/gdVeDLidTnU Minimal install, part1https://youtu.be/x3zZ-nIP4mQ Minimal install, part 2https://youtu.be/22VgIrxkaI0 This is based on the GenPi64…
Raspberry Pi 64-bit boot partition rebuild
This post accompanies the following YouTube video: In preparation for installing Linux Gentoo on a Raspberry Pi 5 it was necessary to rebuild the boot partition and prepare related files…
Raspberry Pi 64-bit Linux kernel rebuild
There is a video on YouTube that accompanies this blog post and encourage watching it if any of the points are not completely clear. From time to time you may…
RSA (RSAwithSHA1) raw signing with SHA1 hash PKCS#1 v1.5
In an attempt to implement RSA signatures on a 32-bit MCU it was necessary to investigate and perform the hashing separate from the RSA signing. In doing so I have…
Setting up an email server with postfix, dovecot, postfixadmin, and roundcube
Recently setup a new email server on a CentOS Rocky 9 VPS server and thought I would document the process below. I pulled information from a variety of webpages and…
Setting up virtual hosting (vhosts) on a Linux server with https
This guide is written with the general understanding that the reader is mostly familiar with how to access and setup a VPS Linus server. Most commands will be done over…
Creating a new open source IoT platform, server side Python script, part 2
After taking a little break to resolve some SSL certificate issues we turn our attention back to the current issue at hand, the server side Python script. As seen in…
Easily creating self signed SSL X509 certificates
While working on an IoT project involving an MQTT server it came to be that I would be generating my own SSL certificates for the MQTT broker (mosquitto). There are…
Creating a new open source IoT platform, server side Python script
Coming back to the IoT platform after a little break. This time trying to work a little more on the server side and actually put together some working code and…