There was a time when a ham radio set up sported many dials and switches and probably quite a few boxes as well. Computers have changed all that. Some transceivers now have just a few buttons or are ...

The inspiration for this post (and this project) came from something that I recently read in the Raspberry Pi blog. I would like to start out by saying if you are interested in computers, programming, ...

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science in schools. But ...

Don’t get me wrong, a Raspberry Pi can work as a reliable home server node. But once you start dabbling into VM-heavy workloads or tasks that require the superior OS and package compatibility of an ...

Last week I used every Raspberry Pi that I had to build a six-node HexaPi computing cluster. Since then I have been asked a number of times: what is it good for? So I'm going to take a look at the ...

It became something of a cliché a few years ago in online discussions, whenever a new single board computer was mentioned someone would pop up and say something like “Imagine a Beowulf cluster…“. Back ...

A few years ago, as a demonstration of the power of a relatively simple technology, software giant Oracle built a cluster of 1,050 Raspberry Pi 3iPB+ computers. Now Oracle’s big cluster, the largest ...