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Poetry Box

For Christmas 2019, I made my partner a box that displays a random poem on an e-Ink screen. The main inspiration was a short story dispenser that we came across at the Austin Public Library. After seeing this, I saw several projects on r/arduino of people making their own poem dispensers and the like. Not wanting to waste paper, I decided to make my own using the Pimoroni wHAT e-Ink display, a Raspberry Pi Zero W, and an old cigar box.

Wednesday, December 18, 2019 Read
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The Missing Clusterhat Tutorial

As a project, I decided I wanted to learn more about Cluster computing. The cheapest way to do this, of course, is with a cluster of Raspberry Pis. There are several truly impressive Raspberry Pi clusters across the internet, but the cheapest and easiest option I could find was the ClusterHat. The ClusterHat is a shield for a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 which allows you to attach four Raspberry Pi Zeros as nodes to a Raspberry Pi 3/4 easily. It is extremely easy to install, set up, but the big question after following the website’s set up instructions is what comes next?

Friday, August 9, 2019 Read