Here's an update on the progress I've made building an enclosure for the device: The enclosure is made out of a couple oatmeal containers attached to a frame of foam board. The front is a piece of mat board (roughly the same thickness as the...
The displays arrived a few days ago, but I really didn't have the energy to get them working until today. Yesterday I found my Universal Display Breakout Board™ and soldered the display to it. Today I connected a Feather RP2040 to it, and tried to get...
So far, I have only understood where some Lenovo Thinkpads store their passwords. They are located at 0x380 and 0x400. I interpret this as password and confirmation password. These are seven bytes plus one checksum byte. This is not a CRC. It's...
Okay, we've found a motor, and a step up converter to provide power to it. Now we need to control it.A linear motor has two terminals, + and -.If you apply a suitably high DC voltage between the two terminals, the motor will start rotating. + and - are...
Last monday I ordered the frame and 4" prints from Blick on Market St in San Francisco. The frame is 23"x13"x2" made out of white painted wood. The mat board is white 4-ply with four 4"x4" picture windows and one 9"x4" LED calendar window, and the glass...
In my previous log entry, I had fried my CM4 by shorting 5V to 3.3V, so I had to order a replacement, which arrived last week. The next thing for me to test is whether I can boot the CM4 on my board, so I installed Raspberry Pi OS and set enable_uart=1...
In my previous log entry, I had fried my CM4 by shorting 5V to 3.3V, so I had to order a replacement, which arrived last week. The next thing for me to test is whether I can boot the CM4 on my board, so I installed Raspberry Pi OS and set enable_uart=1...
This is my first animation, it shows how the slider would plunge into the mat board. The slider plunges down the max travel of 6mm. More animations to come.
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