What do you think computers will be like in 10 years?

My Quora answer that’s pretty popular : (1) Phil Jones’s answer to What do you think computers will be like in 10 years? Related to my previous story of trying to use the CHIP for work. This is a $9 CHIP (Get C.H.I.P. and C.H.I.P. Prto) It runs Debian. A couple of weeks ago, I …

Travelling without a laptop

Why, yes. This is, indeed, OWL running on the PocketCHIP. Here’s the story. I spent 12 days recently, travelling in the south of Brazil and Uruguay border. And I decided, as an experiment, to see if I could live without my laptop. I wasn’t meant to be working, but I always like to keep some …

DIY 3D Printed Raspberry Pi Pocket Chip

OK. So someone has made a Pocket-style Raspberry Pi case. Very nice. Hope someone starts commercializing these as I think they’ll be very important for the RasPi ecosystem. mobipre2 shared on YouTube: Raspberry Pi – Pocket Chip   Source: DIY 3D Printed Raspberry Pi Pocket Chip « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and …

MTC on PocketCHIP

You all probably knew where this was going, right? Of course, it’s been my priority to run the new MTC on the PocketCHIP. And it runs fine, without any special conversion; just needed to figure out how to install a library it depended on without going through drracket. Now I’m off for my celebratory bike …

Node-RED

Yahoo Pipes may be dead, but Node Red seems to be the device swarm orchestrating, data-flow programming tool I was hoping it might evolve into. It’s free software, it runs on everything including RaspberryPi and talks pub-sub protocols like MQTT.   Source: Node-RED

Questions for 2014 : #3 Programming on Tablets

Third in a series (#1, #2) of questions occupying my mind at the beginning of 2014. Which may (or may not) inform what I’ll be working on. 3) How can we program on tablets? I’m now a tablet user. I became a tablet owner at the end of 2012. For six months I played around …