Recent Posts
Raspberry Pi: Programming Motors with Python and pigpio
We’ve:
Unboxed and assembled a UCTronics Robot Car.. Set the car up as a Wifi client and installed JupyterHub. Connected a wireless gamepad. Replaced Wiring Pi with pigpio and read from a sensor It’s finally time to make this car move. You’re going to talk to the motors!
Using pigpio In the last post, we left off with code that looked like this:
import time import pigpio def beep(count): for i in range(count): pi.
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Crosspost: Rsyslog Configuration and Troubleshooting
Loggly’s blog serves as an impressive library of logging documentation. I’m proud of being published on their site. Here’s a post about Rsyslog
The BSD Syslog standard has been with us for a long time, and even with the advent of journald, it’s here to stay. Rsyslog logs messages to the network or to local disk via the standard while boasting high performance. Its client-server architecture and multithreaded architecture make it easy to scale your logging infrastructure.
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AWS Lambda Tutorial
Here’s a post I wrote for Scalyr’s Blog almost a year ago.
Functions-as-a-service are a very useful technology, and I plan on writing more about it here, and how it can relate to IoT and especially robotics.
AWS Lambda is one of the leading serverless architectures in the cloud today. It was first-to-market among the major cloud vendors, offers the most competitive pricing, and is employed by Netflix, one of the largest cloud service providers in existence.
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