Category Archives: embedded
Raspbian headless install over Wifi
TLDR; Configure your new PI without a monitor Just follow this guide to install your raspberry pi 3 without a monitor. It enables wifi and ssh in the default raspbian installation. install raspbian on your sdcard: mount boot partition enable … Continue reading →
Earn money with your smartphone
TLDR; Let your smartphone mine cryptocurrencies I like money. Money is even better if you don’t have to work for it. So I set up my smartphone as a zcash node. Zcash is similar to bitcoins: You exchange computing power … Continue reading →
Blackmagic probe
TL;DR: Flash new software to a cheap STLink v2 clone to get an integrated gdb Essentially, I just followed the the instructions in their wiki. I still had some problems guessing the pinout and documented my progress. Hardware: To program … Continue reading →
ESP8266 + Arduino + Eclipse
TL;DR: PlatformIO offers a complete toolchain, libraries, makefile and IDE integration Making a new microcontroller work is hard. You need to get a feel for the surrounding community and the way the manufacturer imagined them to work. PlatformIO solves all … Continue reading →
Enabling zram
TL;DR: Oneliner to enable zram on embedded systems. This uses nproc to initialize one swap file per cpu. ‘4096’MB is the used size. The eval is used to enable dynamic bash ranges. Lzo compresses typically 4:1. I use the same … Continue reading →
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