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.
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...
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.
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”.
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...
Frank Abelbeck
The Peter Pan of Nerdery™ 🇦🇺🏜️
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