Collaborate Disseminate
If you are a Star Trek fan, you’ll probably remember the phrase “You have to learn why things work on a starship.” The truth is, in most episodes, knowing how …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: An Odd Use for fork()
As a standard feature of the Linux kernel, device tree overlays (DTOs) allow for easy enabling and configuration of features and drivers, such as those contained within the standard firmware …read more Continue reading A Power Button for Raspberry Pi, Courtesy of Device Tree Overlays
One day, [mitxela] got bored and decided to build his own HDMI monitor – the unconventional way. HDMI has a few high-speed differential pairs, but it also has an I2C …read more Continue reading Making Your Own Technically-HDMI OLED Monitor
Not everyone is a fan of GUI interfaces. But some tasks really lend themselves to something over a bare command line. Very few people enjoy old command line text editors …read more Continue reading Hacked GDB Dashboard Puts It All On Display
In the old days, you had a computer and it did one thing at a time. Literally. You would load your cards or punch tape or whatever and push a …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Simple Pipes
It seems there’s a service for everything, but sometimes you simply learn more by doing it yourself. If you haven’t enjoyed the somewhat anachronistic pleasures of running your own server …read more Continue reading Run Your Own Server for Fun (and Zero Profit)
Unix and, by extension, Linux, has a mantra to make everything possible look like a file. Files, of course, look like files. But also devices, network sockets, and even system …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Fusing Hackaday
We remember when getting Linux on your average desktop computer was a tricky enough endeavor that only those with the most luxurious of graybeards would even attempt it. A “Linux …read more Continue reading Getting Root On Linux Amplifier Adds New Inputs
Sometimes reverse engineering embedded systems can be a right old faff, with you needing to resort to all kinds of tricks such as power glitching in order to poke a …read more Continue reading Linux Arcade Cab Gives Up Its Secrets Too Easily
If you are a traditional programmer, using bash for scripting may seem limiting sometimes, but for certain tasks, bash can be very productive. It turns out, some of the limits …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Bash Strings