Hacking & Retrocomputing

New Amazon EC2 T2 micro instances computing power

In 2009, I tested the computing performance of 'M1 small' EC2 instances. At this time it was the cheapest EC2 instances available, at $0.10 per hour.

Now 'T2 Micro' instances are available at only $0.013 per hour. I wanted to test how they compare to the old instances …
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Gandi Hosting vs Amazon EC2 computing power (updated)

I'm currently playing with Amazon Web Services and EC2, Amazon's highly flexible VPS hosting service. Gandi Hosting is providing a similar Xen based hosting service, and last day I saw that they benchmarked their basic "one share" server with Unixbench and got a score of 40.

I was curious to …
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Android NBench: PC power in your pocket

When I have a new Linux device in my hands, I love running NBench to see the raw CPU power. So I ported the NBench to Android, and you can find it in the Android Market.

The benchmark was designed to expose the capabilities of a system's CPU, FPU, memory …
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Gandi Hosting vs Amazon EC2 computing power

I'm currently playing with Amazon Web Services and EC2, Amazon's highly flexible VPS hosting service. Gandi Hosting is providing a similar Xen based hosting service, and last day I saw that they benchmarked their basic "one share" server with Unixbench and got a score of 40.

I was curious to …
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ATMEL AVR PWM / Servo controllers with GPIO and serial interface
How to control servo with cheap AVR micro-controllers? Here is my Open Source PWM / Servo controllers with GPIO and serial interface

These modules allow you to control servo motors the same way Pontech.com modules do, but for MUCH less money ! They are based on an Atmel AVR 2313:
- servo …
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