Luis Artola Luis Artola Engineer. Entrepreneur.

I write about cloud computing, programming languages, Raspberry Pi, and ocassional random topics. I’m currently an Engineering Manager at Google. Content and opinions are my own. You can find me at LinkedIn, Twitter, and GitHub.

Solving the Framework Laptop Battery Drain Issue

The Framework Laptop with Ubuntu 21.10 is a great combination for development. However, the battery drains very quickly during sleep with the vanilla installation. A solution that works great is to enable deep sleep and hibernate. My system can now hibernate for weeks without depleting the battery. Because fine tuning a Linux system is not effortless, I hope this guide make it easier and straighforward to configure and give it a try.

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Framework Laptop with Ubuntu Review

Framework Laptop with Ubuntu Review

I built my own laptop over the holiday break and it’s a developer’s dream come true. I took a chance and ordered a Framework Laptop DIY Edition. I’m so glad I did. The Framework is an excellent platform to customize and build a very capable and stable Linux machine for development. Here’s what I love about it and things that could be better.

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Joining Google Maps

Joining Google Maps

A delayed flight, a lost wallet, and a realization during an unexpectedly auspicious trip. A short story of why I’m so excited to join Google Maps.

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Live streaming with Raspberry Pi and Google Cloud Run

Live streaming with Raspberry Pi and Google Cloud Run

I built my own HD camera with Rasbperry Pi just for fun. And, I also wrote a simple web service to live stream a video feed directly from my Raspberry Pi to any HLS video player out there using Google Cloud Run. Let me show you how I put together a simple system to capture, encode, and stream.

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Powerful remote workstations with Raspberry Pi and Google Cloud

Many people across different industries are stuck working from home with the need of having a powerful workstation to do compute-intensive interactive work. From animation, visual effects, simulations, architecture to data science and more. In this article, I will show you a quick way of turning a low-power computer into a powerful workstation with help from the cloud. I’ll be using a Raspberry Pi 4 and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to demonstrate how to do animation and rendering on a remote Windows workstation with Blender.

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