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Robert Vigil

Robert Vigil

Present day finance professional, ..corporate web/database developer in a previous life.., also enjoy guitar/bass playing, and bike riding.

Adding a Pi-Hole DNS server to my home network

Oct 1, 20232 min read

I recently repurposed an old but still pretty sturdy samsung laptop as a Pi-Hole DNS Server on my home network and so far (just a couple of days in),...

Adding a Pi-Hole DNS server to my home network

Soldering the GPIO header onto my new Raspberry Pi Zero

Aug 27, 20232 min read

I picked up a Raspberry Pi Zero and a case kit that included the GPIO header (along with a power cable and some other nifty adapters). This is a...

Soldering the GPIO header onto my new Raspberry Pi Zero

Raspberry Pi 4 & Raspberry Pi Pico

Aug 24, 20233 min read

Picked up a couple of Raspberry Pi's this weekend to play around with. One is about the most minimal Pi there is, the Raspberry Pi Pico WH (with only...

Raspberry Pi 4 & Raspberry Pi Pico

ZeroTier Home VPN

Aug 22, 20232 min read

I've recently been playing around with setting up a home VPN (virtual private network) using ZeroTier, which is a free, widely used, and longstanding...

ZeroTier Home VPN