Raspberry Pi display, PSU, PiZero2, NoIR camera and flash drive.

PIZero2 in case, booting off the USB flash drive and connected to the RPi display.

The PIZero2 in case, booting off the USB flash drive and connected to the RPi display. But this time everything is running off a USB power bank

of course, whilst I was there I topped up on RPi related products. Picked up almost enough stuff to make an actual computer. just missing a keyboard and mouse.

Runs off batteries too.

Picture of the show and tell section of the camjam.

Overhead picture of the show and tell section of the camjam. Various visitors talking to the exhibitors.

Schedule for the afternoon talks.

Philip Colligan talking about the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Eben Upton talking about the engineering side of Raspberry Pi

Eben's early attempt at building hardware!

A few pictures from yesterday's CamJam event.

Got there just in time for the afternoon talks, and then spent another hour or so checking out the show and tells. Plus chatting with a few people I've not seen since the last RPi event I went to!

Box cover of the Thunderbirds 60th anniversary BluRay box set

The full colour episode guide and posters.

The artwork of the BluRay folder and disks.

One of the included posters, showing a schematic of the Hood's vehicles.

My ThunderBirds 60th Anniversary collector's edition has arrived (just a few months late, but hey).

Box looks nice and comes with an episode guide and several posters/schematics.

Will have to watch a few episodes and see how many differences I spot!

ooo I lucked out then.

I ordered a CM4 and CM5 yesterday, just missing the price hike it seems as today the same website shows the higher price.

At this point, I'm unlikely to get any more until a future 6 comes out.

There are electrical differences (e.g. USB3).

You can support CM4 and CM5 on the same board (i.e. compute blade) but Argon mentioned they were focussed on future compatibility, not backwards.

My CM4 doesn't boot in the official CM5 IO board either. I may see if I have a newer revision to try.

There does seem to be a fitting issue on the right hand side, the various USB ports don't line up with the case and are very hard to use. So will need to query that.

Doesn't power up with a CM4 installed, so no easy route to test RISC OS on it.

Argon ONE UP Laptop closed

Argon ONE UP Laptop open

Argon ONE UP Laptop open and displaying the Raspbian desktop

My Argon ONE Up CM5 laptop arrived this morning. For a Kickstarter project it was pretty quick.

Plugged in a CM5, installed the Argon extras and seems to do all the laptop things. (Battery, hotkeys, lid closing detection)

Installed Raspbian and, yes, its Raspbian on a CM5. So a good start.

Cover of the 'Little Computer People' game for the Commodore 64/128

They're a bit behind the times... My C64 was doing this back in the 80s!

I doubt their 'tinyPeople' can play the piano or feed the dog.

Here's hoping, temp has gone up a bit more now, so might do a COVID test tomorrow. (Already did the flu test today)

So might get a 3 for 3 for COVID @ Christmas!

Was running a temperature this morning and coughing hard enough it felt like my brain was bouncing in my head!
So I skipped work today.

On the plus side, at least this happened after my holiday and not during, like it normally does.

I've got a roll or two of TPU, but haven't braved printing with it yet!

Really should give it a go.

Finished printing out the 'BladeRunner' enclosure for the Compute Blades.

Bit of a tight fit getting them installed, especially the one using the RPi CM5 heat sink which required quite a bit of pressure to slot into place.

Of course, now I need to remove them again to install OS and drives!

One blade setup, with fan, and the case being printed (12 hour print job!)

Its only 2 years late, but my Compute Blades have finally arrived!

Luckily I only ordered one RPi CM4 in the pack (note to self: Don't pre-order off the shelf extras), so I can use that in one and then get a RPi CM5 for the other.

Next step is to start printing the enclosure, then some setup.

Downside is its very, very noisy.

A pair of server fans cable-tied together and manually wired into a DC barrel socket

A pair of server fans cable-tied together pointing at a Raspberry Pi

My, passively cooled, RPi server still seems to be suffering from the heat...

So introducing the 'JankFan 2000™', causing an almost immediate drop of 30C-40C!

Seems to be keeping the RPi stable after 2 1/2 hours.

Hmm my RPi server has started crashing, I wonder why.

$ vcgencmd measure_temp
temp=83.7'C

Oh, that's a bit toasty.

I just got poorer...

Everything re-installed into a newly 3D printed case (makerworld.com/en/models/16...)
Has a bit more room inside than the last one, plus has 4 3.5" bays.
just need to work out where I put my fan controller, as its rather noisy at 100% speed.

Noticed the Radxa Pentsa SATA Hat was back in stock at RS (Quite a bit cheaper than other retailers).

So time to rebuild my Raspberry Pi NAS again, hopefully this time with a less janky power setup for the HDDs!

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, or Transformers

If only I had read this before going to the shops at lunch time, I could have stocked up!

It's New Year's Eve and I've just put up a Christmas tree!

Which has immediately created a WiFi network with a hard coded password....

They also start with telling you the movie contains minimal interruptions.

I'd find it less annoying if they just straight up said 'This movie contains ads'.

Thanks!
Magneto did do a bit of high diving on the first attempt, before I worked out the drone was just trying to go higher and higher!

Pain to control as the done kept thinking it was near the ground...

#yarrbooty

1024 pieces!

#yarrbooty

I've barely touched the Yukon I got when it was first released :(

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