Name: Kirk Martinez
Date registered: July 19, 2012
Mar 01
We are excited about the new Raspberry Pi 3 that was just released. Its use of a more powerful ARM Cortex A53 processor, Wifi and Bluetooth will make it even easier to build systems. Some have been ordered already for coursework! The processor even uses Big.LITTLE technology from ARM. This is now used on some …
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Mar 29
Now there are four cores – and better ones – I felt the need to run our VIPS benchmarks to see how well the cores can work together. This is CPU-bound so is not affected by the micro-SD card speeds. Here are my results using vips-7.42.3: Threads, time(s), speed-up 1, 92, 1 2, 48.2, 1.9 …
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Nov 27
People soon need some wires – especially to plug into a little breadboard. These ones from ModMyPi are handy. For socket-socket these from Hobbytronics are also good.
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Nov 19
This is how I configured a Pi to use Eduroam. Note that this is quite old and may be site specific sorry! in the WIFI Config ap Scan to find Eduroam Edit its config and check you have: WPA2-Enterprise (EAP) Encryption: CCMP EAP Method: TTLS identity: yourID@soton.ac.uk Password: your university password CA certificate: /etc/ssl/certs/AddTrust_External_Root.pem …
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