Category: Pi Shop
The making and baking of Pis for a smart home solution
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Cooling Pis
When I put the Pis into their cases I failed to take into account the heat the bottom mounted NVMe drives would generate or that the case would trap that heat to the point the Pi would go into thermal shutdown. There are lots of vents on the sides of the case so I thought…
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AI as a coding partner
For the past few months I’ve been using Google’s Gemini AI. The first few weeks were with Gemini 2.5; I would also try MS Copilot. The were equally frustrating as I struggled how best to use them in setting up my Pi shop. Then Gemini 3 was released and things improved immensely, sorta, maybe. AI…
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Pi Shop Home
This is the central dashboard for my home network. It is based on the HomePage software and as you can see uses widgets that report basic metrics for the machine or service. They are also links to the services they monitor for quick navigation. The left column is for the core services in the Pi…
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Bit rot bit me in the printer
Why Your Digital Memories and Devices Can “Expire” From memory cards to thumb drives to SSDs and beyond, they all use NAND memory. Computers work with 1s and and 0s, high or low, on or off. NAND devices store a small electrical to designate a 1, lack of charge is a 0. Without power the…
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WordPress 101
You can do it — Steve If you can type you can create a website. If you have an artistic eye you can make a pretty website, or use the supplied proven themes. If you can take a picture with your cellphone, and use drag and drop to copy that picture, you can add it…
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What’s in the Pi Shop
The Pi shop is 3 Raspberry Pi 5s, the first model with PCIe so they can take real storage media, like NVMe M.2 drives found in modern computers. The Pi devoted to public facing traffic, like this website only has 1 TB, so there is a limit to how much I can say or the…
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Is Self-hosting safe?
How can I securely and safely run a self-hosted website from my home office you may ask? In a word, curiosity. The Pi serving this page has no original data, only copies. So there isn’t a concern with data loss. The first line of defense is a strong password, done. Second is a strong firewall…
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Dashboards
What is the dash in dashboard? As a verb it means to travel in a great hurry. When a horse dashes off (noun), there is often debris flung behind. The debris from the horse’s dashing is also called dash. In carts and wagons boards were placed behind the horse to protect riders from getting a…
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Top Level Domains
TLDs are no longer limited to .com, .net or .org. The .sky is not the .limit. TLDs now go from A to Z with hundreds of stops along the way and more added all the time. To get an idea of some TLDs and who controls them this wikipedia page lists several hundred. Most professions…
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Acorn to Oak
Practice makes perfect You can teach an old dog new tricks, but the dog has to want to learn, and it’s still harder to do. One way to help is practice, practice, practice. That was all the justification needed to add a 2nd Pi to my Pi shop. With two Pis I had to start…
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