As long term readers of this blog might remember, I am involved with the theatre and have built electronics-driven stage props before. However, the last time I used an Arduino to drive an H-bridge IC for a stepper motor, so pretty much low level electrical engineering, with a bit of …

I usually hate it when real life stops me from coding, but in this case I had a really fun weekend off the computer. The downside is that the echo server still is not done. So not much happening on the Samba 4 front from my side.

One related news …

After some initial issues, I have just joined my first XP box to Samba4 running on snoopy, my ARM-based system-on-a-chip home server.

So now I have a spiffy Active Directory setup running on a system that makes no noise, barely heats up, and that peaks at 2W power usage. If …