The PI Rack has a new Raspberry PI running PI-hole, a DNS Server that strips out advertizing and acts as a tracker-blocker. Wikipedia explains it better. Not much to say except is was real easy to install and set up. I did configure it to boot off of a USB flash drive, which any PI owner knows, was not possible in the recent past having to boot off of a Micro SD card.

Yesterday I got on the city bus from work to start my journey home. The previous day it never showed up because the Port Authority has a very serious driver shortage problem. So I was glad it showed up even though it was about 10 minutes late. But as soon as I boarded, the driver asked me if I new were Fort Duquesne Blvd was located. I thought he was joking.

Project “PI Rack” has finished it’s first phase of development. The whole idea was to take my two Raspberry PIs, one being a VPN server and the other this very website, and mount them on a DIN Rail with all the hardware to power and communicate with them. Referring to the above PIcture, from left to right, the 120VAC receptacle that supplies main power, a 10A circuit breaker, a 2A fused terminal block, a pass-through terminal block for the neutral, and a ground terminal block.

Last winter I wanted to tackle something that has been on my mind for quite a while, years in fact. Back in the MS Windows days, circa 2006 or so, I was using Photoshop Elements as my main image processing driver. It allowed the user to decide the file naming scheme of the photos when uploading if the camera’s default wasn’t satisfactory. So I starting using a scheme based on the date the image was taken with a counter (picture number) at the end.

My first post has to be the installation of this website. A blog website without any specific toPIc. It will include PIctures I’ve taken, tech notes of my projcts, or anything else I want to blather about. I really wanted to host this myself with my own hardware. Since this was going to be a very small website with very little traffic, I decided to set it up at home using a Raspberry PI.