#651 – Learning Computing with Jeff Geerling

Welcome Jeff Geerling of the Jeff Geerling YouTube Channel!

• Jeff sounds so calm one his videos because he records after the kids are in bed


• He started working with dad at the radio station when there was a transition in radio to digital / online. Jeff had an early job as a technology explainer while making manuals at the station.


• Jeff still makes videos with his Dad on the Geerling engineering channel 


• Ham radio vs broadcast


• 1 Million Watts on the Supertower


• Calling the FCC


• CamOX facility


• Keeping people interested during videos


• Mars 400


• RPi clusters


• It’s a good exercise because it helps those building it understanding the limitation of spreading across computers


• Drupal website on cluster


• “The constraint gives me the story”


• A good starter project? Maybe the project pi cluster


• /r/homelab


• NAS, monitoring, VPN, pidramble


• Home Assistant


• ESPhome


• yaml files: better than xml, JSON is better


• Devices should only be added to the house if they are: Local, additive, private


• X10


• Smart stuff in the house


• Interested in the embedded side


• LLM


• Jeff became Chris’s de facto Pi5 analyst


• RP1 episode


• PCIexpress


• Jeff discusses RISC V