Author: Michael Harry

  • Raspberry Pi Electroplating

    Raspberry Pi Electroplating

    Last February I set up an electroplating experiment using a Raspberry Pi 2, and the results were quite good. To do this, I filled a cup with lemon juice and connected some alligator clips to some pennies. I then ran a current across from the Pi’s GPIO pins. I wrote a small program in Node.js…

  • Why I Don’t Use Arch Linux

    To me, the minimalism of Arch is a double-edged sword; it allows a user to have great level of control over what is installed on their system so they can match it exactly to their needs, however that level of minimalism also forces users to spend a lot of time setting up and configuring their…