FlightBox Mk 2 assembled. ✅

#aviation #RTLSDRv3 #raspberrypizerow #adsb

FlightBox Mk 2 case revision dunno-lost-track.

Tomorrow junior might airbrush it in RAL 2005 bright orange. GNSS connector needs crimping, and I've to tailor some USB cables.

Oh, and the cantenna needs to be built. Crimped/soldered the SMA connector yesterday. Fanta can is ready.

#aviation #rtlsdr #raspberrypizerow

Profile update on a chroot arm-QEMU setup.

1) update world
2) eselect new profile
3) update toolchain (binutils, gcc, libc)
4) emerge world

Phew! Five days full throttle on an i7-8550U...

#gentoo #raspberrypizerow

After all these years of tinkering I finally own a Biegelehre! ☝️

99 Eurocents well invested.

Up until now I just formed them Pi mal Daumen (rule of thumb) with pliers.

FlightBox Mk. 2, interface circuit, third approach. Stripboard will be painted black before assembly, to match the Zero's case.

#aviation #RTLSDRv3 #raspberrypizerow #electronics

Here’s what the Zero looks like. Pushpin for scale. I still don’t know why I can’t connect it to my 5ghz wifi - the board supports it - but that’s a problem for another day.

Edit: I was an early purchaser, back when there were no cases at all for it. This is a badly fitting, but adequate, #RaspberryPiZeroW “case”.

#PiHole on #RaspberryPiZeroW experiment over. It worked, but it is just too SLOW. Not something I noticed when actually operating and blocking ads, but when it reboots. I don't want to wait like 2 mins between restarts and the OS activating PiHole. Plus, last night it died for some unknown reason. Maybe because it was overclocked or.. I don't know. Switching over to the Radxa Zero on Armbian 24.5.1 (#bookworm) for test number 2.

Overclocked the #RaspberryPiZeroW and am now doing OS updates. Good god, I had forgotten how slow this damned thing is. But they say it works fine with #PiHole. Let's see. Let's just see about that.

I have multiple #RaspberryPi 3B's knocking around here, 3 CPU cores more than this thing.

Crowd: "Why not use one of those, Dhry?"

Because brain tells me to use minimum viable solution so I can use those for other things.

Crowd: "Or let them gather dust unused for four more years."

Ayup.

State of the FlightBox:

Fixed an issue with @djb's daemontools. I forgot to add "exec" in my Bash-based run scripts. The supervisor could start the programs, but could not stop them due to Bash being in the way. With exec the programs replace the calling shell -- and are now fully supervised.

All systems ready! Now I' m waiting for VMC...

#bash #python #raspberrypizerow #adsb #rtlsdr

Erstes Projekt 2024 - eInk Wetterdisplay mit Nachrichten. Jetzt noch ein schöner Holzrahmen drum und den Code etwas anpassen. Aber schaut für den ersten Test schon gut aus …. #raspberrypi #display #python #raspberrypizerow #basteln

FlightBox state:

✅ new RG 174 antenna
✅ revised mounting system
✅ labels for easy web access
✅ web interface with compass-driven relative bearing indicator and wake lock support
✅ powered by @ThePSF and @gentoo

#aviation #aviationgeek #raspberrypizerow #rtlsdrdongle

Another Chance To Revive Your Nabaztag https://hackaday.com/2024/01/23/another-chance-to-revive-your-nabaztag/ #internetofthings #RaspberryPiZeroW #homehacks #nabaztag

Well, I guess the hardware is nearly done. What remains to be done is creating an appropriate dipole antenna.

#avgeek #flightbox #adsb #raspberrypizerow

Well, now I have an external activity LED and a debounced pulled-up pushbutton. And they are working with the gpio-shutdown dtoverlay and the act_led_* dtparams.

But...

With a 2:40 chance I chose a GPIO pin (3) for the LED which is hard-wired to an internal pullup. Resulting in a dim-lit external activity LED when shut down. 🙄

#avgeek #raspberrypizerow

Vielleicht hilft die Erfahrung ja irgendwem früh genug:

Wenn die Inbetriebnahme eines #RaspberryPiZeroW daran scheitert, dass man erst keinen male Micro USB-B auf female USB-A Adapter für eine Tastatur hat und der eine bestellte Adapter zu breit ist, so dass das andere male Micro USB-B Kabel für die power delivery gar nicht mehr simultan rein geht. 👍😅
Weiterer Adapter in Kabelform, der dann endlich Aushilfe schafft, ist aber auch schon auf dem Weg.

#RaspberryPi #ZeroW

FlightBox hardware assembled, ready for software deployment and testing.

#avgeek #rtlsdr #raspberrypizerow #gentoo #python #asyncio

#BeagleBonesBlack To-Test:
1.) Check how it performs wiht pihole (or if i t can run pihole).

My #RaspberryPiZeroW is fine but it does have slowdown points; I do kind of wish there was an easy way to cluster two to act as autobackups for each other. I should research that.

2.) Check if the OS will let me mount a USB as a bin or sbin or use it hold bin/sbin programs and link them into bin/sbin.

3.) See if there's a better OS or if the more recent BB Kernel updates are compatible with BB's.

I'm thinking about getting 2-3 of these and using them with #RaspberryPIZeroW machines in the #van as a dashboard with more functionality than a standard dashboard can offer. I really love how circular these things are and that they are 2.1" touchscreen LCDs!

#Raspberry #RaspberryPI #Pimoroni #LCD #RoundDisplay #FunProject

This is the backside, with a #RaspberryPIZeroW on it.. so cute =D

A new RPI Zero 2 W going as a wireless printer server. #raspberrypi #raspberrypizerow

#RaspberryPiZeroW really really hated Raspberry OS lite. I am noting this here so I remember and don't try that nonsense again.

For the life of me, though, I can't work out why.