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What's LetsHack About

LetsHack provides a collection of notes and howto's that have been put together since 2016. A lot of the learning that you will find here is based on the long hours spent hacking on my numerous Raspberry Pi's, Arduino's, ESP8266, ESp32's, etc. i've got lying around the house. This website is labour of love documenting my learning including lessons learned along the way.

LetsHack initially started as a collection of notes and howto's that I put together mostly written up to serve as guides, notes to myself. These notes to myself were intended to serve as a reminder for the various systems administration, setup and programming tasks i would usually need to perform when i pick up a new Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ESP, etc. This site initially started with a primary focus on the Raspberry Pi but over a period of time as I began hacking with the Arduino Uno, Ardino MEGA, ESP8266, ESP32, etc. I've ended up listing all of those relevant notes, howto's documenting learning on each of these devices along the way.

Hopefully some of the information here will be useful to some of you out there who might stumble across simliar issues when hacking with your own Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ESP8266 or ESP32.

!!! Keep hacking !!!

HowTos -

Just Code : Projects Completed + Projects Under Development -

In The Works -

  • Documentation / HowTo's
    • Evolution of the Raspberry Pi
    • Overview of the Raspberry Pi 3
    • Burning the SD Card & Booting up your Raspberry Pi
    • Configuring your Raspberry Pi to connect to a Wireless Network
    • Performing basic configuration on your Raspberry Pi using "raspi-config"
    • Setting up your Raspberry Pi for remote (Command Line) access using SSH
    • Setting up your Raspberry Pi for remote (GUI) access using VNC
    • Setting up your RaspberryPi 3 to able to VNC (remote connection) to the main display
    • Linux survival basics - Introduction to the BASH shell and key commands
    • Mounting an external Windows recoginzed USB Device (& File System) on the RaspberryPi 3
    • Setting up a USB Web Camera on Raspberry Pi 3
    • Configuring the Raspberry Pi to play audio, video
    • Interacting with the real world using GPIO. Build simple circuits.
    • Changing the default sound output on the Raspberry Pi 3
    • Installing and testing a USB mike on the Raspberry Pi 3
    • Browser controlled robot with streaming video.
    • Setting up your Raspberry Pi to monitor your home remotely using Rpi Cam
    • Installing Alexa on the Raspberry Pi
    • OpenCV - Face detection using AWS S3, AWS Rekognition, AWS Lambda. Read out current weather on positive match.
    • Turn your Raspberry Pi into a smart audio streaming solution using Mopidy
    • Hacking the disk layout on a Raspberry Pi Model A
    • Custom Node Red Installation
    • Curses based command line radio player.
    • Git Introductory Tutorial
    • Dealing with Git SSL issues on windows.
    • Youtube on the Command Line
    • IoT - Building a Temperature, Humidity monitoring setup using the NodeMCU ESP8266, DHT11/ DHT22 sensors.
    • SSH and SCP connections hang when connecting from remote machines
    • Turn your Raspberry Pi 3 into a smart audio streaming solution using Mopidy
  • Projects
    • My connected Smart Home
    • Graph data collected via sensors, plot in real time
    • Connect up RF 433mHz to NodeMCU ESP8266 to open/close Garage Door

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Documentation & Tutorials -

Maker Projects For Kids

Purchasing Electronics, Arduino's, Rapberry Pi's Online -

Thanks for visiting -

Hopefully you have found some value in the guides that have been published at this site. If you have any input or feedback please drop me an email at trevor at practical performance analyst dot com. You can see the rest of my open contributions at Github

Who is tangowhisky37 -

tangowhisky37 is the pseudonym that Trevor (Warren) has used for a while now. Its inspired by his love for the physics of aviation. Trevor (Warren) is passionate about challenging the status-quo and finding reasons to innovate. Over the past 15 years he has been delivering complex systems, has worked with very large clients across the world and constantly is looking for opportunities to bring about change.

His love for working with people and harnessing the power of the collective human intellect he believes helps him deliver the expected outcomes. Trevor constantly strives to combine his passion for delivering outcomes with his ability to build long lasting professional relationships. You can learn more about the work he does at LinkedIn. You can download a copy of his CV at VisualCV. Visit the Github for details of the projects he's been hacking with.