I tried this hoping I could use it for a USB UPS for a Pi and unfortunately the Pi does reboot. The device just isn’t designed for that. My quest for a small USB UPS continues.

I tried this hoping I could use it for a USB UPS for a Pi and unfortunately the Pi does reboot. The device just…

I was 59 when I bought my black 2016 WRX last April. My spousal unit refers to it as the “Batmobile”.

The late Colonel John Boyd must be laughing his ass off right now.

I confess, watching this movie has become a Thanksgiving evening ritual for Mrs. Overclock and me as we digest our turkey and ponder the imminent pumpkin pie. We get weepy and sentimental every time, and it gets us in the mood for the Christmas season.

Just the other day I was running a Raspberry Pi on one of these devices on mains power (wall socket). (The Pi had an LTE modem for a network connection and my laptop was connected to the Pi’s serial console port.) I pulled the Anker from the wall socket and the Pi reset and came back up powered by the Anker’s battery.…

Just the other day I was running a Raspberry Pi on one of these devices on mains power (wall socket). (The Pi had an…

*edit* “Promite” (damn you, spell check)

I learned to like Vegemite during my first trip to Australia back in 1996. I’d never even heard of a Vegemite (or Marmite, or Promote) and cheese sandwich until now. I thought I had invented that myself. It’s pretty good. Use the Vegemite sparingly, not like peanut butter.

I do embedded product development for a living. That term covers a pretty broad spectrum of platforms, ranging from PIC micro controllers with ninety-six *bytes* of read/write memory, to products with multiple embedded Linux systems, to a single embedded Linux system with an i7 processor faster than my laptop.…

For fun I like to read post mortem case studies of failures in complex systems. These stories are great. They are all examples of how interconnected systems fail in strange and non-linear ways.

It was fun!

And finally: Frank, on his FB page “Frankmusik”, talks about composing scores for several Hindmarch shows, including this one.

Okay, this is definitive: composer Vincent Frank a.k.a. “Frankmusik” posted the Anya Hindmarch A/W 2017 video on YouTube.

The Anya Hindmarch customer service folks say: “I can confirm that the Music was composed for us by Vincent Frank.”

I asked! This is the initial reply I got: “I will ask for you about this, but I know that the music was composed/created for the show specifically, that is why you wouldn’t find it in any app.” If I get any more information, I’ll pass it along. But it sounds like your strategy of exporting it to MP3 is going to be the…

I searched for it as well with no luck, after SoundHound didn’t recognize it.

*holds hand up*

*holds hand up*

In some weird twist of fate, I was powering a Raspberry Pi 3 equipped with an LTE modem with a USB battery pack just this past weekend for a project, and I wondered if there was such a thing as a “USB UPS”. I did some web searching and found only big UPSes with USB ports. And here we are on Monday, and there it is. (I…

In some weird twist of fate, I was powering a Raspberry Pi 3 equipped with an LTE modem with a USB battery pack just…

I had to Google this, so for others’ benefit:

Wear a hat. Even inside, if you’re cold. I like wool or acrylic knit or fleece, but even a baseball cap will help. I knew that you lose a lot of body heat through your scalp. But when I started getting a buzz cut or even shaving my head, I started wearing a cap indoors even while puttering around in my office. It…

A big thumbs up for the Velcro straps, which I’ve been using for years. When faced with yet another cable or power cord, I toss the wire twisty as soon as I open the package (I have a box of twisties saved up if I really need one) and replace it with a Velcro strap. I’ve also used them, sometimes several of them stuck…