radiation detection with Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is a nice piece of hardware. Moreover, it can be expanded with an “Arduino to Raspberry Pi connection bridge”, which allows it to interact with other boards made for Arduino. For example, sensor boards. In this case I’ve been playing with a sensor board for radiation detection. It is as cool as … Continue reading →

Google Drive direct download of big files

Files hosted at Google Drive service can be shared publicly. Nevertheless, if they’re too big, Google pages advice that “Google Drive can’t scan this file for viruses” and ask the user for confirmation in order to proceed with the download. If for any reason you’re trying to do an unattended download of the file or … Continue reading →

BlueArc/Hitachi HNAS monitoring with cacti

BlueArc NAS (now part of Hitachi Data Systems) or HNAS, provide a web gui administration, like any other appliance… but it do not let one track filesystem changes nor are they integrated with the rest of my monitoring system… unless I integrate it with cacti. As I didn’t find no developed templates for this devices, … Continue reading →