i3

First Encounter: i3 super fast and light-weight Window Manager

There are many Desktop Environments (DE) for the various Linux distros, namely GNOME, KDE, XFCE, and LXDE and each of them branch-off into different variances, most notably Unity, Cinnamon and Pantheon. A lot of them offer bloated screen gimmicks, unecessary widgets, and high resource consumptions. Today Linux Circle Team tested…

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…

owncloud

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…

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