Sleepy Pi

Putting the Raspberry Pi to sleep

As much as I wanted the SmartUPS to work for the OspreyCam project, I decided to take a look at the Spell Foundry Sleepy Pi instead. The Sleepy Pi is basically an Arduino board with regulators and switching transistors to control the power to ...

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hibernatemode on a desktop Mac

TL;DR: If you migrated system settings from a notebook Mac to a desktop, run sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0 autopoweroff 0 on the desktop machine.

In 2014, I replaced a MacBook Pro 17" with a refurbished late 2012 Mac Mini (Macmini6,2). One of these years I should probably ...

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OpenElectrons SmartUPS

I have been experimenting with a Raspberry Pi Model B and a Pi camera board, and I wanted to make it slightly more portable. Issue 26 of The MagPi mentioned a new battery-powered UPS with a USB power output, so I decided to give that a try.

My main goals ...

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Network UPS Tools

NUT is an open-source Uninterruptible Power Supply monitoring system. Many systems can monitor a single UPS over TCP, and shut down automatically when the battery runs low.

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