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Required default first writing name for a tech blog! Ok, this won't be a long post but I think it will be at least a simple establishing post...
Required default first writing name for a tech blog!
Ok, this won't be a long post but I think it will be at least a simple establishing post...
What is EcoHackerNet?
A space for me, EcoHacker, to share the long-form posts that can "go deep" into the topics I spend the most time diving deeply into researching on my own effort.
I made the name EcoHacker because I do tech hack things but I focus on being Economical for price and energy/fuel use, focusing on Ecological sustainability and projects that can run all day on a small battery and low power, all night easily, and with solar panels that can easily charge everything in just a couple hours. I come from a background studying and working in nature and also in tech so I have a lot of knowledge and experience in both and I try to bring both together how I can.
I have a few raspberry Pi's and I've run home servers and Linux boxes and worked on a lot of servers in the past at work and at home, I've worked in the tech industry and built software and full applications professionally, but my passion has always been for researching topics deeply and a lot of my careers have been built indirectly off that.
This space is intended to share more of my passion project areas, with more of a Futurist bent because I am obsessed with sustainability, high tech, and the fact that humanity are an organism living in ecosystems on a planet that they should plan around instead of against.
For example - Ecology
Do you know what a "Food Forest" is?
A "Food Forest" is what we need to solve world hunger and climate change and stabilize ecosystems all in one fell swoop.
The downside? Nobody makes money off free food...
Here's a video explainer:
For example - Technology
Have you heard of the Raspberry Pi?
The whole point is an affordable computer that's accessible and easy to use and affordable enough for anyone to get into it. It was inspired by computer scientists who aimed to produce an entire computer on a single board, a Single Board Computer (SBC), and the Raspberry Pi 5 is so advanced at this point it's as powerful as a laptop and small enough to fit in a shirt pocket!
Want to see the most powerful and expensive one at $225?
Here's a video review, he builds an AI model right away! He ran AI on it and it's good enough to run desktop stuff at 16 GB of RAM and 2.4 GHz CPU it's fast!
Here's the exact kit he's using:
From the Author
For Example - Sustainable Technology
Did I mention that the Raspberry Pi 5 is powerful, yes...but by the nature of its stripped-down design it uses almost no power to run?
In fact, mine takes less power to run than my phone charger uses! About 12 Watts vs 20 Watts (I measure my USB wattage, I recommend getting a USB-c voltmeter it helps find dead cables so much easier!)
And then when I run it off my solar generator I'm technically running it for free electricity!
I originally got my solar generator because I wanted to be able to practice electric guitar with only the sun (goal complete, achievement unlocked, solar electric guitar has no downsides!)
Now I expanded into what I'm calling "Sustainable Computing" and for me that's simply a way to acknowledge the need to run things off sustainable power generation, and I think a future post will dive deeper into reviews of various solar panels I've tested, as an example of what you could expect in the future...
I can definitely break down a lot of the technical considerations involved for battery and wattage and voltage considerations.
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If any of this sounds interesting to you.
I may expand into other areas but these are subjects I could write a lot about and as projects are ongoing I can share about!
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