Guess what arrived?? Wooo, lots of Pi’s!!!
I also bought a couple of Mega’s. That way I have more pins available to drive circuitry plus ethernet, etc.
NICE!
Managed to sort out a REST API that works nicely 🙂
Some parts arrived today!
Looking to see about switching power to some Pi’s via some kind of web-usable API. I’m using 74HC255’s to drive the relays – Arudino writes 8-bits at a time into them. And then 74HC244’s to read the current state of the latches so that the PI’s will cleanly survive an arduino reboot.. Once that’s sorted, I can build a management API that something like WHMCS can talk to 😉
Managed to get an Arduino talking to it, but not quite correctly. Must have fudged something. Will look at it again later 🙂
With these new Raspberry PI 2 Model B’s coming out, I’ve had an interesting thought… They’re finally powerful enough to use for hosting. Not just little play hosting, but you could ACTUALLY use one instead of a small VPS.. Hmmmm.
The guys from work and I ordered a bunch. And they arrived this morning. HOOLY DOOLY they are fast. Well, fast enough to use instead of a small VPS 🙂
Went looking around at home tonight, and found this case that I bought off ebay some time back.. It holds potential 😉 oh, and look, I could fit a 16-relay board nicely in the drive bay.. might even get more than one!