James A. Chambers

This guide is meant to help get an environment configured to work with the Raspberry Pi Pico.

The Raspberry Pi Pico and Pico W boards are quite different from other Raspberry Pis.

I've been mining cryptocurrency for a very long time.

Recently for my storage benchmarking site I had a GitHub issue opened about the Orange Pi Zero 2 not being able to complete the storage benchmark successfully.

It has been a while since I covered storage benchmarks on the Raspberry Pi because every time I sat down to write it I ended up adding new features to the SBC storage benchmarks web site and it never got finished.

The term "software defined radio" simply means that parts of a radio that were traditionally hardware are implemented in software.

A "pwnagotchi" is a device used for wireless security auditing / hacking that captures the handshakes of any WiFi access points in range of the device.

For many years configuring a headless Raspberry Pi usually involved creating a bunch of text files on the SD card.

When attempting to determine storage performance on Linux there are common tests such as doing a DD write command and measuring the speed of that.

The Raspberry Pi shortage is extremely bad.

This is a containerized version of my Paper Minecraft Java server.

I've been getting asked to put this together for years including in official GitHub issues.

For quite some time now Kadena (KDA) has been topping the charts for mining profitability.

PiBenchmarks.com is now several years old.

It has been a long-running meme in the Linux community that each new year would be the "Year of the Linux Desktop" for decades now.

One way I keep up with the developments in cryptocurrency is I do watch some of the YouTubers since the YouTubers are generally following the juiciest developments to farm views.

One reality of cryptocurrency mining is that you are almost certainly going to need multiple units to reach whatever goals you have.

Recently Goldshell released the 2.2.0 update which includes the new "Goldshell Hub" (featured above) which is basically a cloud control center for your miners.

There are few things I dislike more in this world than getting questions on my setup guides that I don't know the answer to, but thanks to an investigation by Bill Schatzow we can strike one of those issues off the list!

The Bobcat 300 Helium Miner finally has an interface you can use to be able to tell what it's doing!

I recently covered all the pieces you need for a complete setup to work with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4.

The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 is primarily meant for embedded projects and didn't catch my interest at first.

In my last series of cryptocurrency related products/services reviews I gave a positive review to the ApeSwap Exchange on the Binance Smart Chain which has continued to be a great exchange and live up to that review.

I recently received my Bobcat 300 miner after months of waiting.

I've covered how to get the right type of storage adapter for your Raspberry Pi for years on this site and cataloged storage adapters that both work and don't work with the Raspberry Pi.

I've been running pibenchmarks.com for several years now so I've held on to any spare storage devices I can get my hands on for benchmarking/testing/cataloging purposes.

The 1.17 Caves and Cliffs Part 1 version of Minecraft came out for vanilla very recently but until now the Paper Minecraft server was not available for it.

I have a *lot* of 2.5" SATA drives around the house that have collected from over the years from various devices.

The world is full of devices communicating with Bluetooth even if (or maybe especially if) you don't realize it.

I've previously covered fixing Valheim's dedicated server lag by modifying the dedicated server's send receive limits.

You've likely heard in the news of someone paying a ridiculously large amount of money for something called a NFT (non-fungible token) such as $387,000 for a LeBron James NBA Top Shot moment, artwork from the hottest artists in the world who have been ado…

The OpenJDK 11 version that comes in Raspberry Pi OS's apt repositories is ancient.

This is the second in a series of articles about tools I've found during my IT hardware technician career that made my life much easier.

This year I've been doing more with technology than ever and I wanted to build a workstation.

I've had the original 900 mAh PiSugar UPS backup battery for the Raspberry Pi Zero for several years now and it's an absolute game changer.

As a computer technician / technology enthusiast I have a lot of electronics that need to be kept clean.

Extremely powerful hardware tends to be very loud.

The Binance Smart Chain can be a dangerous place.

Last year a official 64 bit version of Raspberry Pi OS was released.

I have had two Ledger Nano X cryptocurrency wallets for a couple of years now.

To this day it can still be treacherous to buy a storage adapter for your Raspberry Pi 4.

Valheim is still in early access which means there are definitely still bugs that can cause big headaches.

Backups during Valheim's early access period are extremely important.

The Raspberry Pi 400 is the first offering from the Raspberry Pi lineup that is meant to approach desktop level performance.

Native support for USB mass storage device booting has made it's way to all of the Raspberry Pi 4's firmware release channels!

Valheim is a really fun game where you are basically a Viking in purgatory trying to get to Valhalla that recently entered early access.

On December 8th NVIDIA officially released RTX support on Minecraft Bedrock Edition for Windows 10.

Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) seems to usually work pretty well for 95-97% of the computers at the environments I've worked in.

I recently had a need to interact with a Google Sheets spreadsheet and it turned out to be pretty easy and worked pretty well!

Official support from Canonical for the Raspberry Pi has come a long way.