Blogs, tutorials, projects and electronics recycling ideas for Raspberry Pi, Arduino and Python.

New archive for AAIMI Home Automation articles

We started the official AAIMI Home Automation tutorials way back in 2014, and since then we've covered 14 versions of the program.

We've removed all obsolete setup and usage articles and kept just the feature article for each version.

Click to read more how about the new archive...

Activate Windows 10 with a Windows 7 product key from another computer

With the free Windows 10 offer expiring at the end of this month, it's time to drag out your old broken Windows 7 computers and put their product keys to use.

Click to read more how to reuse your broken computer's product key...

AAIMI gets its own domain

The AAIMI Project now has its own domain and website, theaaimiproject.com.

The new site provides an overview of all the various AAIMI modules and hosts the source code downloads.

I'm still keeping most of the main tutorials here in the cave.

Click to check out the new site....

One of my favourite old laptops had major issues today, and after a couple of hours tinkering I now know it has a dodgy motherboard. It is heading for a well-deserved retirement. So long, Killer, you have served me well.

To look on the bright side, I thought I would use this as an opportunity to share the processes I use to troubleshoot laptops and the thinking behind these steps.

Click to read more...

USER ACCOUNTS

If you have a shared computer at home, do you use separate user accounts for each person? If not, it might be time to change.

There are numerous issues that can arise from sharing a user account. Some of these can be system issues, but the more worrying concern for some can actually be the personal issues.

Click to read on...

Cave Madness: Send your recycling bin to hell

A right-click menu with a send to hell option. Picture: Anthony Hartup.

Today, in ten minutes of madness, I replaced an entire Window core component with a new, slightly crazier, and much more powerful system.

Read how you can send your recycling bin to hell.

Mobilizing the Cave!

We are pleased to announce that Anth's Computer Cave is now mobile-friendly.

It's taken a while and still needs some fine-tuning, but the site works better, not just on mobile, but also on a desktop computer.

Click to read about the change...

New Raspberry Pi 2 brings potential GUI programming options

In case you haven't heard, there is a new Raspi in town, the Raspberry Pi 2 model B.

It claims to be six times faster than the previous B+ model and sells for the same US$35.

Finally we can actually build working GUIs for our Raspi programs