Most Recent Posts
How this theme evolved
Announcing a new project: newspaper-hugo-subtheme
First credit goes to Silke V at codepen.io name “silkine” [http://www.silkevoigts.de/]. Original source code can be found here: https://codepen.io/silkine/pen/jldif
I had a coworker who had a non-profit business blog that wanted to offer a newsletter to her clients. So I got interested in finding an HTML format that gave an old traditional newspaper style and Silke offered a solution that provided a strong simple css base. Currently (2017) I find the hugo cms system to be the easiest most portable static web building application freely available. The challenge was to create a full newsletter style theme as a subtheme within an existing theme structure. So I mocked up a ported version of Silke’s newspaper css into a hugo “section”.
An example of this subtheme can be seen here: [newspaper-hugo-subtheme]
This project is a drop in offering to any existing hugo themed structure which will produce a newsletter format in an “article(s)” hugo section. A user only needs to change the title, city, and state varbiable that are stored as front matter in the ./content/articles/_index.md file. Hugo uses this file natively to discover section (in this case “articles”) specific data. All posts to the newsletter subtheme should be created in this ./content/articles/ directory as markdown files. Running hugo new articles/mynewarticle.md will create a new file with the default front matter pulled from ./archtypes/articles.md.
This project becomes a drop in addition to any hugo theme to add a newspaper type subtheme section.
Raspberry Pi MagicMirror on a Touchscreen with Alexa and fauxmo
Warning: what follows is a cascade of issues and lessons learned… but just plain fun!
The goal
This project is designed to provide a reliable MagicMirror2 on a Raspberry Pi fitted with a 5 inch touchscreen that doubles to provide browsing if needed. This comes from a desire to have a quick aide in the kitchen that reports standard information when needed or a browser for looking up and displaying recipes etc.
The result is a raspberry pi with one wire that stands on its edge without a case and has a 5 inch display. The display can show any of the modules provided for magicmirror2 on command to Alexa or stop magicmirror on command. The rasbian desktop along with an inboard keyboard pad and touch “pen” allows you to launch a browser (or any other program) and navigate to any url. When the desktop is idle a screensaver comes up with anynumber of pleasing animations - selectable and can be rotated with screen blanking possible as well. The backlight of the screen is enough to act as a soothing nightlight. All in all, I am very pleased (and so is my wife) with the final result of this project.
There is a LOT of information here and lots of steps but it is worth it and you will definately learn lots of useful tricks. I am sure there are many improvements that could be made.
Materials
Hardware - rasberry pi (in my case a model 3) with powersuppy - 5 inch touchscreen with plastic pen - USB storage (optional but recommended) - you will need a temporary keyboard/mouse attached to set things up.
Software - berryboot (which will load rasbian) - apache2 and php - magicmirror2 and various modules - fauxmo (from Maker Musings) - software for the touchscreen including touch a calibration tool - matchbox-keyboard - xcreensaver
Sorting IPs
I scan my home network frequently. There are a good number of smarthome devices, raspberry pies, phones, laptops, PCs etc. Using nmap to quickly scan a network is too slow for me - and it is a challenge to parse the output for easy reading (of course I would use awk to do that). So I use arp-scan (available in most repositories). So output might look like this: