Peter

Steenbergen

Building privacy-respecting voice AI systems and embedded Linux platforms.

[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (HASS / GA / Alexa / MyCroft) – PART 1

[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (HASS / GA / Alexa / MyCroft) – PART 1

For a long time I have been looking at how I want to automate my house. One of the MOST important part of that automation, for me would be a voice controlled personal assistant (A.I) that can do ANYTHING I ask it to do. Over the last few weeks I have looked at many software […]

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F@ck that shit! Rewind and back to the fun stuff

F@ck that shit! Rewind and back to the fun stuff

Fuck that shit! I go back to doing fun stuff on this Blog / Website. The last few years, more and more I “rolled back” into the “Hacking Gadgets” type of stuff. So although I stepped away from it a while ago, I basically never left. The whole starting over this website as a more […]

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Howto optimize Linux – SD card as rootfs

Howto optimize Linux – SD card as rootfs

The write performance of a SD card is a little bit different then using a conventional spinning disk under Linux. The main problem is that a SD card can not write data over existing data. So whenever it want to write something it has to delete the content of that section first. To add to […]

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Initramfs support for Linux-ARM (Allwinner A10)

Initramfs support for Linux-ARM (Allwinner A10)

If you use any of the ubuntu based distributions out there you might want to make use of  Initramfs support for the Allwinner A10. Using a initramfs solves a lot of errors related to boot profilers such as ureadahead. Secondly you are able to load kernel modules soon in the boot process, hence the reason […]

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