Today i've got some time :
Power Supply :
I have made some change on the electrical circuit. My raspberry was undervoltage. After a lot a search, i discovers that the cable i've used was not large enough to permit enough current to power the raspberry.
I previouly used 28 AWG cable. i didint know that this cable have a limit on the current they can carry. Rapsberry pi 3B+ need 2.5A. I buyed some 22 AWG cable , and make all the power circuit again.
After running some test, it was a lot better. but i got always undervoltage under eavy load. i upped the voltage to 5.1V and now all is fine ! My Raspberry Pi is working fine.
I used this document http://www.jst.fr/doc/jst/pdf/current_rating.pdf to get the max current rating for AWG cable.
I soldered a new microUSB cable to. I like soldering, it's a relaxing activity =)
Wifi :
For the Wifi, to get an extended range, i changed the external wifi dongle. I buyed a 8822bu chipset with an external 2.4Ghz/5Ghz antenna. I replaced this antenna with a big one of 50 cm 2.4Ghz only.
this thing is really big and i'm a little scared for the USB port. i got to find a way to make this more solid.

The wifi card is compatible with Linux, but my ubuntu is on ARM and there was no drivers.
So i modified the compliation instruction code to make it compatible with ubuntu mate with Arm processor.
Here is what i do (in a short way):
sudo apt install -y dkms git clone https://github.com/chasonr/rtl8822bu.git --branch linux-4.15-fix sudo cp -r rtl8822bu /usr/src/8822bu cd /usr/src/8822bu ln -s /arm arm7l apt install linux-headers-4.15.0-1049-raspi2
Modifiy the make file from line 960 to change the taget to ARM. otherwise it will not compile into the Linux kernel.
Then :
sudo dkms add -m 8822bu -v 1.1
sudo dkms build -m 8822bu -v 1.1
sudo dkms install -m 8822bu -v 1.1
sudo modprobe 8822bu
done =)
Have fun building robots =)
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