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The Frugal Penguin

Tools for optimizing Linux power management

Aug 02, 2017

Linux offers several tools that help users analyze the power consumption of hardware components.

Little Friend

Exploring the extra tiny KolibriOS

Oct 06, 2017

KolibriOS, written in assembler, is especially suited to very old hardware – it even fits on a floppy disk.

Wide Reach

A Rasp Pi wireless access point

Oct 25, 2017

Set up a wireless access point with a Raspberry Pi 3, Ubuntu Core, and snaps.

Horse Power

Developing concurrent programs with Pony

Oct 25, 2017

Pony, an object-oriented programming language with static typecasting, trots down well-mapped paths to deliver secure, high-performance code for concurrent applications.

Sure-Fire Success

Developing an AI system with Markov chains

Oct 25, 2017

Markov chains model systems that jump from state to state with predetermined probabilities, but can they help write new columns like this one after learning from previously written articles?

In the Can

Record screencasts with Peek on Gnome

Nov 30, 2017

A screencast shows what happens on the desktop. Peek lets you create screencasts in the blink of an eye and export them to popular formats.

Pi FM Radio

Build an FM radio using an RTL-SDR dongle

Nov 30, 2017

Low-cost RTL-SDR dongles can read frequencies between 24 and 1,766MHz. We built a simple FM radio with a Raspberry Pi, a USB dongle based on the RTL2832U chipset, an LCD HAT, and some Python code.

Small Wonders

Compress image files with Guetzli

Jan 09, 2018

The Guetzli image optimizer by Google developers produces smaller images than JPEG while maintaining the same quality, but it requires a powerful computer with a large working memory.

Programming Snapshot – Neural Networks

Car NOT Goat

Jan 09, 2018

The well-known Monty Hall game show problem can be a rewarding maiden voyage for prospective statisticians. But is it possible to teach a neural network to choose between goats and cars with a few practice sessions?

Building Frames

Building Frames

Jan 31, 2018

FFmpeg is good not only for converting and fusing videos together, it can also generate streams on the fly, which you can then use for compositing and effects.

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