Easy way to install Arch Linux
Arch is very stable, and highly customizable linux distro. You will like it if you want to build your OS up from scratch. Prepare partition You can use gparted from Ubuntu Live CD or another GUI tool to create root, home, and swap partitions. Or you can follow the following instruction. Login as…
Robot Project Day 6 – Arduino Sketches for Robot Control
Previous: Day 5 – Power Supplies If you are familiar with Arduino IDE sketch, you could program simple commands to control the motors first. The most important thing to remember is that each motor controller is different, and each one would have a dedicated ports for you to connect up the…
Robot Project Day 5 – Power supplies
Previous: Day 4 – Motor Controller These are the requirements for the robot’s power supplies: 1. Motors will need at least 1.5V power per motor and the amperage would depend on the power of each motor. We used a remote 7.2V remote control car batterry which is converted to 5v, so it…
Home Cloud: Installing Owncloud 5 with NGINX Web Server on Raspberry PI
Now you can have your own cloud on a Raspberry Pi. Here is how: 1 Preparing to install with raspi-config Run Command : sudo raspi-config 1. expand_rootfs run so we have enough space for packages ownCloud itself and uploads 2. change_locale to ” en_US.UTF-8 ” for the complete system (Otherwise ownCloud complains…
How to automatically login into Pi
Auto Login: In Terminal: sudo nano /etc/inittab Scroll down to and block the following line: #1:2345:respawn:/bin/login -f root tty1 </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1 2>&1 Under that line add: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty –autologin {USERNAME} –noclear 38400 tty1 Change {USERNAME} to pi Ctrl+X to exit, Y to save followed by enter twice Auto StartX (Run LXDE GUI):…