Saulius has been working on this project to use the Carambola2 dev board for portable Dropbox uploading. This eliminates the need for a PC, allowing pictures from a webcam be to uploaded directly using the dev board’s built-in WiFi. Sometimes it’s overkill to use computer with 200W power consumption for 24/7 to do small task […]
Tag Archives: cloud computing
Nimbits 3.2 released
The Nimbits crew is proud to announce the release of Nimbits v3.2. It is now easier than ever to get started using the public Nimbits cloud. Nimbits.com is a free, open source platform for logging and visualizing data on the cloud. It is a service you can use out of the box to log changing […]
FXI demos “any screen” connected computing USB device
Trev writes to inform us of an Android computer in a USB key. This device is now being prototyped by FXI and has been code named Cotton Candy. “The Cotton Candy is a USB stick sized computer device that allows users a single, secure point of access to all personal cloud services and apps through […]
Storing Arduino sketches in the cloud
Paul Asselin shares a tip for storing Arduino sketches “in the cloud”. He used Dropbox’s free storage to host his Arduino sketchbook. Now he can access it from anywhere. Via the contact form.
Free webinar: OpenStack open source cloud framework
Oreilly is offering a free webinar on the topic of the OpenStack open source cloud framework. Open Source, Devops and Cloudcomputing, none exists without the other. Join Andrew Clay Shafer for a guided tour of the OpenStack projects and ecosystems. He’ll start with the history and context of the project, then walk through the architecture […]
Free webcast: OpenStack, An Open Source Cloud Framework
O’Reilly is offering a free webcast on OpenStack, An Open Source Cloud Framework. The talk will be presented by Andrew Shafer, whose background is in high performance computing, computational science, embedded Linux development, web frameworks and Agile methods. OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud […]
Openstack: open source, open standards cloud
Openstack is celebrating its six month anniversary! OpenStack is a collection of open source technologies delivering a massively scalable cloud operating system. OpenStack is currently developing two interrelated projects: OpenStack Compute and OpenStack Object Storage. OpenStack Compute is the underlying cloud computing fabric controller for the OpenStack cloud. This means that all activities within the […]
Amazon cloud + 20 minutes = WPA cracked
According to thelocal.de a German hacker says he cracked the wireless LAN password of his neighbor in 20 minutes – using the cloud computing power available on Amazon in a demonstration which he says should sensitize people and businesses to security issues.
Nimbits
Nimbits is a free, social and open source data logging system. It provides a mechanism for recording time series data, such as a changing temperature or stock price, into a data channel called a “Data Point”. Your data is stored on a global cloud computing infrastructure that provides remarkable uptime and scalability. You can download […]