Author: Steve

During my experimenting with Single Board Computers I’ve come to appreciate their usefulness as small home based servers. I took a job with a company in Mexico that produces a lot of online content, and I decided to bring along my single board computers and give them a purpose within the company.

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I recently upgraded the SSD in my laptop, and now I have an SSD kicking around not being used as a system drive, and at 120GB, it’s not going to be used for a storage drive either! Time to get creative!

The plan: Modify the USB 3.0 to Sata Adapter Cable so there will be two USB plugs now, one for data, one for power.

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I want a 10% overclock and keep my Pi Zero W cool.

The plan

• Generate a baseline for temps and cpu speed without heatsink
• Generate temps and cpu speed with typical heatsink
• Generate temps and cpu speed with bigger heatsink

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After seeing ETAPRIME’s painted ODroid Go, I decided I wanted to paint mine too.

I didn’t want to buy another one to paint it, so I disassembled my only ODroid Go and gave it a go!

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Making backups should be like shifting gears, except for everything we use there is a different backup process. Luckily Linux is to the rescue! dd is a fantastic way to achieve a perfect backup of your usb media, even hard drives to be honest.

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Today I’m covering the most essential process for anyone who owns a raspberry pi, installing raspbian.

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The ODroid Go is a kit containing all the parts required to make a Gameboy style retro gaming console using very low power parts. It runs GameBoy, Gameboy Color, NES, & Sega Game Gear on a 2.4 Inch 320×240 screen.

Mission: Build & play with the ODroid Go. Then figure out what other fun can be had with it.

Difficulty Level: Shouldn’t be that hard.

Result: Wasn’t that hard.

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