Project Pi-Up

Intro The idea here is to run a Rasberry Pi for as long as possible. I got the idea after finding a couple of different Reddit posts where people were comparing the up-times of their Raspberry Pis. This is a fun, silly little project, and so far, it’s been showing me some engineering challenges that I didn’t expect. A long time ago, I had purchased a specific module that allowed for dRead More…

Why The Empire Will Always Lose At Data Security

***MANDALORIAN SEASON 2 SPOILERS AHEAD*** For those of you familiar with season 2, episode 7’s Mandalorian face reveal, the internet and data nerds are having a field day with it. People are saying this is a “captcha” in order to detect if a droid is accessing Imperial data. I would fully believe this if it didn’t also scan for New Republic agents/associates and listed criminals. No ties to Read More…

Com64 Part2

Why a Commodore Rebuild? I’m not even really sure why I wanted to do this project to begin with. One day, I get this random idea that I want to turn an old Commodore into a current working Hardware. Seemed like a fun challenge and I needed a silly project to get me through COVID-19 Quarantine so I started planning it out. I think I should note and say that when I got this Commodore 64, it diRead More…