On my quest for emulation on the Pi I stumbled across a very interesting piece of software rpix86. rpix86 is a PC emulator for the Pi based off DSx86 a dos emulator for the Nintendo DS. The main website rates this sytem as a 20mhz 80486 with 4MB RAM this was more than enough to […]
Do You need heat sinks for the Pi? Short answer would be: no, you don’t. Long answer would be: Depends what you are doing with it. My first Pi project was a media player and the Pi handles this incredibly without the need for overclocking and the temperature remains within an acceptable level. For the […]
I have moved and I haven’t built a new layout yet but I am still collecting Chessie gear when I can. My newest engine is a Bachmann GP7 Chessie 5606. This engine like my last 2 is also DCC and the detail is fairly exceptional giving that it is a low end brand. Over the […]
So I had been hearing about the Pi for some time before I finally decided to get one myself. I really couldn’t come up with what to do with it and now I have 2 Raspberry Pi’s and a plan to get at least 2 more in the future. For those of you who are […]
I have had this idea for a while to do a Niagara Region chicken tour and review the various brands/flavours of the area and now that camping season is winding down I’m going to try and make it happen. The plan I am looking for a group of volunteers to come along with me in […]