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Mike is the founder of The Geek Pub. A jack of all trades who simply enjoys the challenge creating things, whether from wood, metal, or from lines of code in a computer. Mike has created all kinds of projects that you can follow and build yourself, from many different styles of retro arcade cabinets to Arduino and Raspberry Pi projects.
When people first see the specs on a Raspberry Pi, many assume it wouldn’t make a good web server. Use case matters, which is often overlooked! The Raspberry Pi makes a great web server for small home and office applications. It’s quite honestly the perfect web server for a home automation controller, small personal web […]
You most likely found this article because your trying to understand the difference between the Raspberry Pi NOIR vs Normal Camera that you see on various sites and Amazon. The cameras are indeed very similar, but they are designed for different purposes. If your new Raspberry Pi‘s, or just want a simple parts list we’ve provided […]
Have you ever wanted to boot a Raspberry Pi from USB? Well so have we and we learned how in order to teach you. In this quick tutorial we’ll walk through installing your favorite Raspberry Pi operating system on a USB stick and preparing your Pi to boot from it. We will activate USB boot […]
In our last article we discussed how to wire WS2812b addressable LEDs to a Raspberry Pi. Of course, just wiring them up doesn’t really do much. Not even a single LED on a WS2812b strip will light until you send it a command to do so. So in this article we will continue on with […]
I don’t know where I have been recently, but I stumbled across one of the greatest inventions of all time recently: Addressable LED strips. Addressable LED strips, sometimes known as NeoPixels, or by various numbers such as WS2812b LED strips are LED lighting strips where each individual LED can be controlled via a specialized lighting […]
If you’re a gamer, then you know just how important the monitor is to your gaming experience. You can have the best video card, the best CPU, or the best nVME drive on the planet, but if your monitor sucks your eyeballs are not going to impressed. So we’re going to take a quick dive […]
Back in May I bought a brand new Ford F-150 Platinum. This truck is hands down the best vehicle I have ever owned. I replaced the worst one, a new Toyota Tacoma with constant transmission problems. The new F-150 design and features are so well thought out that there is no doubt in my mind why […]
The debate of cables and wires for home audio and video has raged on for decades. It got really heated a few years ago when Monster Cable started selling cables at 2X to 100X the price of other cables. This makes it really difficult to determine which is the best speaker wire for your system. […]
OK! So you’ve downloaded a file from the internet and it ends in tar.gz. Windows doesn’t seem to be able to open it. What is a tar.gz file? How do you even open this file? What is a tar.gz File? A tar file is a collection of files archived into one single file. The name is […]
It is probably one of the most common questions I get when I tell people I have a fully enabled smart home. People are really insecure when it comes to the security of internet connected devices, especially when they involve security of your home and family. And can you blame them? There’s another website breach […]