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Using a Raspberry Pi as an iBeacon

There's an excellent blog post by by James Nebeker and David G. Young about simulating an iBeacon using a Raspberry Pi and a bluetooth dongle. Since I already had both, I thought I'd give it a try. It worked really well, and I've even put together the files necessary to

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More Fun With BeagleBone Black

I've discovered that owning a BeagleBone Black (or, in my case, two) is kind of like owning one of those really, really nice cars that you buy but you can almost never drive because it spends so much time in the shop. It's a lovely piece of hardware, it really

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Zeroconf Rocks!

I have a lot of computers on my network now - my laptop and desktop, my wife's 3(!) computers, her iPad, two Linux servers and miscellaneous other devices, along with my Raspberry Pi and two BeagleBone Blacks, so managing all these was starting to be a pain. So, just on

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Setting up NTP on BeagleBone Black

For some reason, they didn't seem to see the need to set up the time service on the BeagleBone Blacks by default. I tried using the instructions from this gentleman, but I had to make some modifications. Install NTP $ opkg update && opkg install ntp Edit /etc/ntp.conf,

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BeagleBone Black

Got my two BeagleBone Blacks from AdaFruit on Friday. Really nice. I bought them without enclosures because, well, the enclosures were $20, and the BeagleBones themselves were only $45. The nice thing is, though, that they fit exactly into an Altoids tin, so I turned two into my enclosures. I