{"id":1217,"date":"2015-11-08T12:29:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T19:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2017-09-07T14:13:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T21:13:43","slug":"apple-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/apple-pi\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I recently (2 years ago) purchased a Raspberry Pi (The original model). I bought it off a friend who never ended up using it for anything useful. My intent was to run a small web server with it, and enjoy some savings over the old computer I use for a server that was eating up more than 100 watts of energy.<\/p>\n

I also didn’t care for the case it came with. I also happened to have a first generation Airport Extreme that I also got second hand. It served it’s purpose, but had since died. I thought these two might be a match-made in heaven.<\/p>\n

I gutted the poor airport extreme and inspected it.<\/p>\n

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It didn’t know what hit him.<\/p>\n

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I was going to throw out the PCB entirely, until I noticed that the Raspberry Pi had two holes that matched up perfectly with two holes on the Airport’s main board. I decided to keep the circuit board for mounting purposes, and reuse it’s input jacks since they line up so nicely with the enclosure.<\/p>\n

I desoldered all the parts I could near the connectors, and then marked off the part of the PCB I could remove. The intent was to remove all the circuitry that would be difficult to desolder. The result was a completely bare, partial PCB to work with.<\/p>\n

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I then soldered power, USB and ethernet cables to the circuit board that would then connect to the Pi (so it’s not hardwired in, and can be swapped).<\/p>\n

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Now I have a low power web server in a cute, unassuming box.<\/p>\n

I also wanted to have the filesystem accessible over AFP so I could access it on my desktop. this was easily achieved by installing netatalk using the command:<\/p>\n

sudo apt-get install netatalk<\/code><\/pre>\n
Now that I have the server’s disk mounted on my Mac’s desktop, naturally I need a representative icon.<\/p>\n
\"Airport2\"<\/a><\/p>\n
Using a reference picture, I was able to throw this icon together in Illustrator in about a half-hour’s time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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