Notes:

Well, today would have been Dad’s 98th birthday. I’ll drink a small toast to him, later.

Project Status:

Since I don’t really have a system for posting here at the moment, I think I’ll start with a brief list of everything that I think I am currently doing:

• Raspberry Pi Rig: currently:
  • 6x RPi 3b in a rack, as a general compute surface
  • 1x RPi 3b in a fan-case, as rig controller/master
  • 1x RPi 3b in a passive case, as backup
• Mana Project
  • RPi 1 for port of Mana; have finally obtained second wifi adapter
• Soldering Project
  • RPi ZeroW + Pimoroni “Scroll Phat” dot-matrix display
  • Build & then use for
• Half-A-Gig Onion
  • On hold, awaiting bandwidth.
• EOTK
  • Stable, works, is remarkably quick
  • Goal is to ship stable & feature-complete 1.x version then start on 2.0
    • 2.x version will move more rewriting to Lua to reduce dependencies
• Resurrecting old GPU Rig
  • Inherited 3x Radeon 5870 from JC
  • Unfortunately, Ubuntu stopped loving Radeon in v14 Trusty Tahir
  • Open-source Radeon drivers do not cut the mustard
    • Therefore: adventures in legacy linux and stale proprietary driver code
• Java Experiments
  • Stalled by EOTK but that’s okay, it needed some thinking-time
• Garden
  • Total mess.
  • Need to spend a few days sawing and stacking lumber for next winter, to dry out over the summer
  • Also need to push(@compost, shift(@compost)) which will be hard work
• Work
  • Can wait until after summer.