Self-hosting your website on a Raspberry Pi Zero - Erik Moberg's personal homepage - photography, gadgets, DIY, and more

Erik Moberg's personal homepage - If you pay a visit now and then to Hacker News, you might have noticed that two topics that keep coming up are the old web, and self hosting. The old web, because the web used to be better than today, and self hosting, because individuals have too little control, and the big corporations too much, and we can change that balance by hosting our content ourselves. Whether true or not, self hosting your own website is usually pretty easy can be a fun exercise to setup and run. Let's dive in.

FlightBox Mk 2 assembled. ✅

#aviation #RTLSDRv3 #raspberrypizerow #adsb

FlightBox Mk 2 case revision dunno-lost-track.

Tomorrow junior might airbrush it in RAL 2005 bright orange. GNSS connector needs crimping, and I've to tailor some USB cables.

Oh, and the cantenna needs to be built. Crimped/soldered the SMA connector yesterday. Fanta can is ready.

#aviation #rtlsdr #raspberrypizerow

Profile update on a chroot arm-QEMU setup.

1) update world
2) eselect new profile
3) update toolchain (binutils, gcc, libc)
4) emerge world

Phew! Five days full throttle on an i7-8550U...

#gentoo #raspberrypizerow

After all these years of tinkering I finally own a Biegelehre! ☝️

99 Eurocents well invested.

Up until now I just formed them Pi mal Daumen (rule of thumb) with pliers.

FlightBox Mk. 2, interface circuit, third approach. Stripboard will be painted black before assembly, to match the Zero's case.

#aviation #RTLSDRv3 #raspberrypizerow #electronics

Here’s what the Zero looks like. Pushpin for scale. I still don’t know why I can’t connect it to my 5ghz wifi - the board supports it - but that’s a problem for another day.

Edit: I was an early purchaser, back when there were no cases at all for it. This is a badly fitting, but adequate, #RaspberryPiZeroW “case”.

#PiHole on #RaspberryPiZeroW experiment over. It worked, but it is just too SLOW. Not something I noticed when actually operating and blocking ads, but when it reboots. I don't want to wait like 2 mins between restarts and the OS activating PiHole. Plus, last night it died for some unknown reason. Maybe because it was overclocked or.. I don't know. Switching over to the Radxa Zero on Armbian 24.5.1 (#bookworm) for test number 2.

Overclocked the #RaspberryPiZeroW and am now doing OS updates. Good god, I had forgotten how slow this damned thing is. But they say it works fine with #PiHole. Let's see. Let's just see about that.

I have multiple #RaspberryPi 3B's knocking around here, 3 CPU cores more than this thing.

Crowd: "Why not use one of those, Dhry?"

Because brain tells me to use minimum viable solution so I can use those for other things.

Crowd: "Or let them gather dust unused for four more years."

Ayup.

State of the FlightBox:

Fixed an issue with @djb's daemontools. I forgot to add "exec" in my Bash-based run scripts. The supervisor could start the programs, but could not stop them due to Bash being in the way. With exec the programs replace the calling shell -- and are now fully supervised.

All systems ready! Now I' m waiting for VMC...

#bash #python #raspberrypizerow #adsb #rtlsdr

Erstes Projekt 2024 - eInk Wetterdisplay mit Nachrichten. Jetzt noch ein schöner Holzrahmen drum und den Code etwas anpassen. Aber schaut für den ersten Test schon gut aus …. #raspberrypi #display #python #raspberrypizerow #basteln