Hackathon notes and links

Posted on by David Vassallo

Update: The hackathon event was recently covered on national tv. Here's the segment (in Maltese): The MITA Hackathon from GADGETS on Vimeo.   I recently had the opportunity to participate in (my team won as it turned out... Special thanks to Ian Attard and Godwin Caruana) the Malta Information Technology Agency (MITA) Hackathon, organized by … Continue reading Hackathon notes and links

Nugget Post: Raspberry Pi: Auto starting a program on login

Posted on by David Vassallo

As part of our effort to use Raspberry Pis as SOC monitors, we eventually needed to make sure that on reboot, a browser automatically starts up showing the appropriate information. We cannot simply add this to /etc/rc.local  or /home/pi/.bashrc, since there is no GUI to actually start the browser. The solution is to add a … Continue reading Nugget Post: Raspberry Pi: Auto starting a program on login