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Sunday July 19 2020 from 11 am to ?
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I always like to have a project in mind before a meeting. This time
I'm thinking maybe a small Linux raid file server.
At last SFLUG Rick Moen mentioned the RockPro 6. Which has an
actual pci-e slot onboard.
I don't happen to have one of those but I do the NanoPi M4. Which has
I'll see if I can scrounge up the M4 and SATA hat and work on it at the meeting.
Raspberry Pi CEO talks about having NVME (pci-e) on the upcoming Compute module 4
and maybe the Pi 4 A. People have already hacked the Pi4 to expose pci-e
Pine 64: The RockPro 64 people also have the Pinephone. They just announced
a new "community edition" for pre-order. The last one had UBports which is the
3rd party (community) continuation of Canonical's Ubuntu Touch. This time the phone
has PostmarkOS. Though you can install whatever you like. Base phone is $150 plus
$25 shipping to US. It is very much a beta product and so there isn't even any guarantees.
Might not be able to make and/or receive phonecalls. (And you may wait months for it
to ship.)
If I can't scrounge up the parts for the file server I'll work on making a Raspberry Pi
laptop. I have a Thinkpad T60p shell that I hope can work. Last month I got an Hdmi
controller board hooked up to the LCD. So still to do is program a microcontroller to
interface the keyboard and trackpad. And all the cabling and case mods. woo!
See you Sunday,
Thomas