I made a second RuneAudio player this weekend.. The main difference, apart from the physical box, is power management. On my first setup, toggling the switch abruptly cuts power to the Raspberry, which can cause filesystem corruptions on the MicroSD card (and experience shows, in just ten days, that...
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Quick tip: Add multiple users with multiple public SSH keys with Ansible
Because it took me a while to figure out how to do it cleanly, here’s my solution for adding multiple users with multiple public SSH keys on a server, using Ansible: in login-vars.yml users: – login: “user1” pass_hash: “$6$G1Q……..” pubkeys: – “ssh-rsa AAAAB3N…..yBd1 user1@first-key” – “ssh-rsa AAAAB3N…..eWDp user1@second-key” -...
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- 2018/05/30
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Stravomatic: an Android app to automatically start Strava rides
This week-end I remembered that when I got my new phone, it counted my steps on its own, and I looked up why. I discovered that there’s a Google Play Service that enables developers to get the user’s activity (walking, running, cycling etc) and I decided to try to...
Continue reading...My own homemade BB-8
After having seen the latest Star Wars movie, I, like numerous other geeks, fell in awe with the BB-8 droid, and, like numerous other geeks, I wanted to try and build one. So, I started by getting a 300mm plastic ball and another of 180mm diameter (which was more...
Continue reading...HP Laserjet P3005: fuser disassembly and gear kit replacement
Here’s how to disassemble the fuser on an HP LaserJet P3005 printer, and replace the gear kit (which is a part that fails often, reference CB414-67923). First remove the sliding plastic part at the back of the printer, then remove these two screws : Then remove the big plastic...
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- 2015/01/23
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