High Level Tech Intro Archives — Eric Burns Online

ECHOGEAR Open Rack

December 27, 2024 Gear High Level Tech Intro No Comments

My home lab has evolved over the years. It’s gone down from a half rack with some nice 4U cases on rails to a few systems on the desk. Those “few” systems have started to grow and I’ve also wanted to free up a bit more desk space. During my…

Getting RAID Inside a Dell

November 25, 2024 Gear High Level Tech Intro No Comments

Note: This article uses Affiliate Links. I’ll earn a small commission, at no cost to you, if you purchase items through those links. Since I’m using the items and found them worthwhile, I feel I am still in integrity with my goals by doing this. Lately I’ve gotten into using…

Crowview Note – First Impressions

October 12, 2024 Gear High Level Tech Intro No Comments

A Kickstarter for the CrowView Note came across one of my social media feeds. It basically is a rechargeable 14″ screen, keyboard and trackpad with a handful of ports. It can be used to extend the screen of many modern mobile phones while also charging them. It also works for…

ChatGPT Coding – I Did It, and Have No Regrets

August 30, 2024 Attitude High Level Tech Intro No Comments

I first learned to program in the 6th grade. Since then I’ve spent time as an IT Engineer and System Architect. Prior to joining Cisco, I worked with Perl, shell scripting, Aspect, Expect, Tcl/Tk and a few others I’ve forgotten. We started with Perl when I was at Cisco, then…

RaspberryPi and Safecracking

May 13, 2024 Creative Projects Raspberry Pi No Comments

Two friends both have a safe or two where they don’t know the combination – either the family member that owned it has passed, or they’ve forgotten it. I’ve read about using a Single Board Computer (like a Raspberry Pi) and a stepper motor to manually do the different combinations.…

In the IoT Space, Is It a Microcontroller or What?

April 23, 2024 Creative Projects High Level Tech Intro Random Notes No Comments

I’m working on an introductory article related to building IoT devices. With that I’m trying to use simpler and non-threatening language that is reasonably accurate. Since I’ll be referencing some common open source hardware as a way of getting started learning, I’m having a hard time with how to classify…

Demos – The Website

November 30, 2023 High Level Tech Intro Sales Engineers No Comments

Many technical solutions are related to a website or web based solution. And when doing a demo of those solutions it helps to emulate that website to show the system interacting with. It might be showing how Fastly can log everything that happens at the edge, or showing a customized…

Getting Started Learning Programming

October 30, 2023 High Level Tech Intro SE Skills No Comments

HelloWorld() Several recent articles have listed Programming as a top skill to learn. Even if you don’t intend it as a career, there are many advantages to at least a BASIC* (pun intended) understanding of it. As someone who learned to program in elementary school, I’ve seen the lifelong benefits…

Learning to Program and Interact with Hardware – and Perhaps Building That Minimally Viable Product

March 31, 2023 High Level Tech Intro Raspberry Pi No Comments

Want to learn to program? Combine that with learning electronics? Perhaps your goal is to get hired or get promoted. Maybe so you can build an MVP (Minimally Viable Product) with which to get funding or attract a startup team? Let me tell you about an inexpensive circuit board…

Rasa Conversational AI – Getting Started

January 22, 2023 Conversational AI High Level Tech Intro Startups No Comments

If you want to implement Conversational AI (CAI) and have some developer cycles available it is well worth your time to take a good look at Rasa Open Source. Especially if a CAI virtual assistant is something you’d like to have – but isn’t yet a hard requirement. Rasa has…