Raspberry Pi Printer I was telling myself I had a pretty good mini PC (computer) in the form of a Raspberry Pi (RPi). It was capable of doing everything I thought a small computer should do. But then, it hit me. Not the computer but a realization. There was no way for me to send any of my documents from the RPi to a printer. There is no printer set-up in a stock Raspberry Pi....
Continue reading...Hobbies
It’s Under Control
It’s Under Control The Raspberry Pi 3B+ is holding its own as a low cost PC style computer. It is proving practical as an everyday driver (in automobile terms) and of course can be customized to the Nth degree for just about any special embedded control application that can be imagined. It certainly is not a screamingly fast super computer. That is not its design or purpose. That means there are some practical performance limitations....
Continue reading...Raspberry Pi 3 B+
I’m playing with one of the smallest and most popular PC like computers on the planet. It’s called the Raspberry Pi (RPi). Now available in many editions and and special application configurations. Why? Just because I can. It’s a very intriguing bit of hardware. It’s a bare bone credit card size circuit board. It’s primary operating system (OS) is Linux, which I love and understand. It can also be enabled to run on several other...
Continue reading...Foot Shot
Windows10 slipped in a new malware feature. I discovered I couldn’t save documents or any output from my applications to my desktop. I was trying to do “save as…” within the application to put say… an Aspire G-Code file on my desktop. The “save as” would “act” like a “search command” and report to me that the document name couldn’t be found. A totally ambiguous response. Six months ago, Windows10 added a new “protection” to...
Continue reading...