Boredom is currently offline due to a project I’m currently working on that needed a wide angle Pi cam; my spare was a standard one, and that wasn’t a wide enough view. Don’t worry, though! A new camera module is …

Just a couple of general updates to the boredom project: Added an uppercase-only font and updated the live config to use it. Lowercase letters are kinda iffy on that thing. Added a boredom widget to the front page to see if more …

If you prowl web sites that discuss embedded hardware and operating systems, you will occasionally find people complaining that Linux is not a “real-time operating system”. What do they mean by that? Why is it important? Why do we …

I just can’t resist tinkering. I’ve pushed out a change that does the following: Kills off an infinite loop bug that occurred if RabbitMQ lost the connection. Enables scrolling long messages. This post also updates the …

I’ve long held a certain fascination with old-technology displays. There’s just something special about them. Notable on the list is the 14-segment alphanumeric variety. These displays are very similar to the ubiquitous 7-segment …