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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),...

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...

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...

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...