Da laufen #Nextcloud, #Mailcow, #Wordpress und #Mastodon endlich auf dem neuen #VPS, rufen zu Hause die #Raspberry Pi's nach #Aufmerksamkeit. Eigentlich müsste ich ja langsam Mal ins Bett, aber...
#schlaflos in #HenstedtUlzburg

The copy process, the backup process, of the storage device which I shall use to back up a another OS to, will free up the device to install illumos on, has just passed it's twenty and a half hour mark.
Since the process is so extremely slow, using my SBC to execute this task is perfect because the Raspberry Pi5 uses very little power.

At this rate I will have the backup completed in about 5 hours.

Note:
Back-up storage is allowed to be slow. Many decades ago, way in the beginning, tape storage was also extremely slow. In the days of the Commodore 64 the datasette was an annoyance for many, since it was extremely slow, however it was reliable given the fact that you used proper tapes.

Das neue #raspberry Touch Display 5“ trägt nicht gerade dazu bei weniger Krempel zu kaufen…

This photograph was composed less than 15 minutes ago to portray the heat sink which has now been installed on the Broadcom SOC integrated circuit

In a passive set up the heat sink does not do much, the temperature drops just with a couple of degrees and the order of two to 3° C

With a fan spinning air on the heat sink the temperature drop is significant

From my experience with electronics I know that heat sinks designed for Passive cooling have longer fins. For example the heat sink that I used to repair my National monochromatic television 12" when I was a kid, had very long fins and the heat sink was about as tall as my thumb {8.5cm}

That analog Integrated Circuit controlled almost everything in the television, which made the circuit board quite Compact and easily maintainable

Corrections made with the compliments of @AnachronistJohn I entangled the SOC with the WiFI IC since it's from Broadcom, which also makes network ICs

Wayback is an X11 compatibility layer which leverages wlroots and Xwayland
This means that you cannot only run X11 applications but a whole desktop.

If this project is also compiled for the Raspberry Pi ARM family, I will finally be able to run all my favorite applications from my X86 X11 workflows on the SBC.

One important feature that I'm missing is the ability to pop up a window in Wayland using an X11 clipboard application both clipboard managers Parcellite my favorite & CopyQ show this failure when you try to run them on Wayland on ARM on the Pi5
Parcellite totally fails with even showing it's icon on the status bar. Quite natural since it is specifically with programmed with X11 calls libraries and hooks.

CopyQ manages to function however you need to use the mouse, to pop up the window severely slowing you down.

#Wayback #Wayland #Xorg #parcellite
#SBC #ARM #Pie #Raspberry #OpenSource #POSIX #programming

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayback/wayback

The Broadcom Wi-Fi Integrated Circuit in the Raspberry Pi5, proves something that we have known from the ATX PSU {power supply units} for years. When such a system is powered off significant parts of it are still drawing current.

In my experimentations with the system I had powered it off after having run the SBC without active cooling. The Raspberry Pi Is A robust system that can run without any active cooling. The temperature difference is on such a level that is totally within the tolerances of the System. Over here it operates @ 60+° C. The idle temperature is of course lower.

With a soft power off, the Broadcom Wi-Fi IC still remains warm to the touch, even after a couple of hours. This is also the IC which receives an Al cooling block when you buy a official Raspberry Pi case for your SBC

This temperature is a warning for you not to mess with components that need a total power down when you need to work on the machine.

^Z

I struggled for 2 days trying to get my serial connection to work so I can flash #openwrt on some managed switches I bought. Long story short, I mixed up what it said in the docs on the docs about GPIO vs PIN. Once I sorted that out, the rest of the steps were easy.

Shout out to this neat project that turned my #raspberry #pico into a UART bridge:

https://github.com/Noltari/pico-uart-bridge

MacGyver was here and created a #RaspberryPi mount for #Eurorack

now I think about creating one as a proper product from real materials.
what do you think?

Stable config on my SBC

This weekend at the #repair #cafe, my wife overheard some people talking about #Raspberry #Pi, and she told the people talking about it that "Oh yeah, we have about 7 in our house".
She just asked me how many we actually have...
(I wasn't at the repair cafe myself, as I wasn't feeling well)

This is a Sepia composition of my Raspberry Pi5 SBC.

Without even having used the GPIO yet, the machine has brought a lot of Joy to me, already.
I'm studying the deluge of projects boards / breakouts available for the GPIO, so that I can choose what I want to do first, after which I will go of course for those beautiful tube driven clocks. Of course I'm referring to the Nixie tubes.

Another gem for the Raspberry Pi SBC computers

This is a seven port USB port

https://pinout.xyz/pinout/7_port_usb_hub

Since I know MX Linux by heard, my config of the Pi5 SBC with MX was quite fast.

#MXLinux #rPI #respin
#SBC #ARM #Pie #Raspberry #GPIO #Electronics #OpenSource #POSIX

This is another interesting looking hat for the Raspberry Pi

#Project #SBC #ARM #Pie #Raspberry #OpenSource #POSIX #Python #programming #hat #leds

https://pinout.xyz/pinout/blinkt

This is an example of a high quality Audio AMP hat

https://pinout.xyz/pinout/amp_hat

I've just reached Raspberry Pi hat and GPIO Nirvana!

#Project #SBC #ARM #Pie #Raspberry #OpenSource #POSIX #Python #programming #tubes #Nixie

https://pinout.xyz/#

I am reading up on Nixie tubes for a very nice and interesting Raspberry Pi interfacing project

What I want to achieve is literally controlling the high voltage / current tubes through bridging Hardware with my SBC Raspberry Pie5

https://vacuum-tubes.com/nixie-tubes-guide/