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I have already described a project based on the AVR-Stick hardware. The next thing I wanted to try with that hardware is to create an...

I've stumbled recently upon a little gem called AVR-Stick and bought two of them for about 7 € per stick . I also had a thermoregul...

I was looking for a way to display an icon on a xfce desktop panel on some event. One possible solution is to use the xfce4-messenger-plug...

dnsmasq is a lightweight DNS forwarder and DHCP server used primarily in embedded systems (like routers) where resources are limited. DNS...

Number of online resources offering free remote storage facilities has seriously increased in the recent time and it continue to grow taki...

A 320x240 cheap ( 2,90€ by pearl.de ) digital picture frame attached to a router is a very useful addition to show router's status inf...

Couple of years ago I googled for a simple bash IRC logging bot that I could start on my router to log some channels. I've found a ver...

With a bit of commandlinefu it becomes easy to encrypt and decrypt files with the strong 256 bit aes algorithm using openssl . Add the f...

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 In this final part I'm publishing a real world example of the collectd-exec usage - weather info colle...

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 There is only one thing left to explain - how to get notified if some values go out of scope. As an example I...