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IOT Push Button (Like Amazon Dash)

March 24, 2017 by Madhurendra Sachan Leave a Comment

Amazon Dash button is an incredible piece of hardware and another example of “applied engineering” in Amazon, just like Kindle. The inspiration for this project isn’t directly derived from amazon dash, I wasn’t aware of it until I started digging the internet but at end, I had to set the performance goal to Amazon dash, because … [Read more…]

Posted in: arduino, linux, server, snippets Tagged: esp

Cheap BLE : JDY-08

January 15, 2017 by Madhurendra Sachan 3 Comments

Disclaimer : This post is based on my experience which is completely subjective, in no way I am promoting any application or product 😉   I have been trying to get my hands into BLE4.0 modules since long. As always I was looking for small, cheap solution, JDY-08 was one of solution I came across … [Read more…]

Posted in: arduino, linux Tagged: ble

Adding a display over network !

December 23, 2016 by Madhurendra Sachan Leave a Comment

You are doomed if your laptop has only one HDMI Port & you are running Linux in that box. Unlike windows – where there are tons of easy to run solution, & there are still tons of solutions if you have big numbers in your pocket. Certainly – I neither wish to spend money on external VGA/HDMI … [Read more…]

Posted in: linux, server, snippets, Uncategorized Tagged: hack

Just Another DIY “Smart” Watch

November 29, 2016 by Madhurendra Sachan Leave a Comment

Note : This article was written after project was partially completed, so i don’t have better images. There are hundred’s of projects for building “Smart watch using arduino”, I have curated a list of better projects at end of this article. I didn’t plan to copy any of given projects but at end it turned … [Read more…]

Posted in: arduino, linux Tagged: 3d printer, arduino, smart watch

Kindle Universal Dashboard

October 30, 2016 by Madhurendra Sachan Leave a Comment

Kindle is Super awesome ! Because of its e-ink display. I wanted a display to present data which has – Least power consumption, Not painful to eyes & obviously one which doesn’t emit blue light. E-Ink displays fit perfectly to my requirement – acquiring a display which can be driven using Raspberry Pi or Arduino is hard, … [Read more…]

Posted in: javascript, linux, server, snippets Tagged: hack, jailbreak, kindle, nodejs

Custom Nginx with PageSpeed

October 1, 2016 by Madhurendra Sachan Leave a Comment

Pulling nginx from source, customizing & auto updating across servers is a pain,  We use pagespeed & custom header modules across all our servers, it autominifies resources & increases page performance without giving pain. Below is script we use :

Posted in: linux, server, snippets

Offline Wikipedia with Elasticsearch and MediaWiki

August 18, 2016 by Madhurendra Sachan Leave a Comment

Wikipedia is Awesome ! It’s open, its free – Yea. & its huge in size, millions of articles  but as developer how to exploit the free knowledge. I started digging internet just to find ways to exploit my fresh 9+ GB of XML Gzipped archive which seemed to me of no use as even a simple … [Read more…]

Posted in: linux, server, snippets

Backup Server Configurations to Git

September 28, 2015 by Madhurendra Sachan Leave a Comment

When you have multiple servers it pain to remember every configuration and it may take hours to configure servers again incase you need. It is also impractical to copy each files. There are few tools available but they come with overhead attached moreover its fun to write custom solutions 🙂 1. Create directory 2. cd … [Read more…]

Posted in: git, linux, server, snippets

Cloning Server to New Hardware

September 12, 2015 by Madhurendra Sachan Leave a Comment

You can find many ways of cloning old server to new hardware, create diskimage and move to new hardware and if you have identical hardware use `dd` or similar tool to copy disks block by block, but if you have new hardware and want to move server without downtime and with no configuration change there … [Read more…]

Posted in: linux, server

Monitoring Website for Downtime

September 6, 2015 by Madhurendra Sachan Leave a Comment

Sometimes our in house server go down, But at production level we cannot take risk of 1min downtime, so we were supposed to monitor our server for downtime. Although there are many cheap services available but i decided to do it my own way, I can use this script in my RPI to monitor even … [Read more…]

Posted in: linux, python, server
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