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Joel_Mckay

Expanding on what HawaiianPi has already stated: there is a huge counterfeiting problem from most online re-sellers, auction sites, and community message boards. I would recommend looking at how to use S3 scans, and also dump the card firmware date code & device id information from your new cards.. ...

Joel_Mckay

Most cars have ODBII, but motorcycles never really standardized their CAN bus interfaces. This means you are often having non-fun decoding the proprietary system status/diagnostic messages if you want access to sensor data. Note most vehicle manufacturers will never share this information with third...

Joel_Mckay

An S3 scan is one of the few ways to detect a failing-card that no longer can reliably modify the contents of a sector. http://www.micrometer.xyz/cdn/node/78 You may be lucky and miss a damaged area... but may also still encounter random bugs. Have a look at the kernel settings we use to prioritize ...

Joel_Mckay

True 1-wire is pretty reliable on the Pi. The DHT sensors use a different single wire interface. If you read the datasheets you should notice that they do not mention 1-wire anywhere. True, the example DHT polling libs are usually more likely to have timing issues being invoked from user-space... b...

Joel_Mckay

If you are using a write heavy program the flash may wear out prematurely. SLC flash is still manufactured, and is good for over 100k writes. MLC ("Sandisk ultra", and most others) flash about 10k writes. TLC are only good for under 5k writes, but in my experience can be under 1.4k writes. Most USB ...

Joel_Mckay

I like to use the bme280 or a mcp9808 ( free samples https://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/en/mcp9808 ). Being i2c, they are low-power, clock-skew tolerant digital interfaces, and are comparatively reliable/repeatable... Just keep an eye on the 7-bit bus address allocation needs before you order chi...

Joel_Mckay

I ran into something similar on a headless system... Where if the NTP daemon is running as your time source, it will complain if you jump too far forwards in time (after a few days offline). I simply added a call to sudo ntpd -gq to force the correct time upon boot-up regardless of the error. One ca...

Joel_Mckay

DC Field sensors like those in clamp-on meters will need periodic zeroing, as they tend to drift over time. Thus, many people prefer those 100A Current-Shunts with a digital LED watt-meter, as each meter is isolated from each other. One is unlikely going to get much accuracy from $14 models like PZE...

Joel_Mckay

There are compositing functions in some video mixers, but I don't know if a pi can generate a compatible key with the sensor-text overlay you want. Stabilization in post-production is now fairly easy for low resolution content, but a good motion-control rig is the only option when any mistakes will ...

Joel_Mckay

Schneider tends to make some good products, but I have talked with many of their customers who lament the lack of interoperability that tends to follow. ;-) You shouldn't be seeing plate damage unless it is dropping below 10.6v on a 12v Lead-acid battery during use, or losing electrolyte from fast-c...

Joel_Mckay

Usually, there are quite a few MPPT Solar Charge Controllers for under $150 around with data-output ports like rs485 (>100m), and Bluetooth (<20m). Both types of interfaces can be controlled by a Pi with a bit of effort or adapters, but the data formats are usually vendor specific. Personally, I wou...

Joel_Mckay

If this is Lawrence or Peter's group, than note both the MPU-6050 and MPU-9250 are ending manufacture at the end of this year. As to your question, the MPU buffer monitors an external heart-beat input to set a bit-flag that notes the correct time intervals. In general, one should not rely too heavil...

Joel_Mckay

Does that controller do spindle speed control? We ported in open Arduino firmware people would be comfortable modding, and the version of GRBL on the distro has been setup to run the 12v 10A PWM (low 1kHz drive for laser triggers) on the spindle out. We mostly use this to run fast little diode-lase...

Joel_Mckay

Ok FreeCad on aarch64 Raspbian Debian has a mesa loader issue as expected, Now trying 32bit Raspbian, yep works in 32bit Raspbian. Will also try Gentoo64, that has Mesa 18.3.0, not old Raspbian 13.x Need all these just to make those injector molds ;) We built FreeCad 18.x from the stable head as th...

Joel_Mckay

Love to get a Tormach and Datron Mill for the small stuff. Looks nice, but do you have a photo of the drive gearbox? We got stung by those nylon gearbox designs before, and now have a belt-drive only rule for spindles. (Mostly a human error problem, but chipping a tooth seemed inevitable on the uni...

Joel_Mckay

I want one, plus the cnc mill that made those dies, need G-code for that. I rebuilt my mini home machine for LinuxCNC, and regularly post the entire CAD/CAM software tool-chains along with hard-to-find utilities we found useful. FreeCAD "Path" toolbox and HeeksCNC are slow on the pi3B+, but run jus...

Joel_Mckay

Please ensure to enclose this type of machinery with a blast-shield, as pressurized molten plastic can be dangerous. Stream pressure from residual water in the plastic can cause all sorts of really nasty accidents. However, I suspect this user is probably just using a Marlin (atmega2560) based contr...

Joel_Mckay

A lawsuit from an insurance company,,, and or fine from the inspectors.... can cost your company much more than a real PLC.

I have built custom industrial stuff before, and it only really makes economic sense if building over 10k pcs at a time.

Best of luck,
J

Joel_Mckay

Sonars make great wind-speed indicators, and unreliable distance sensors. ;-) Low cost Radars are a real option now, and worth looking at given the example code is for a PI if I recall: https://www.acconeer.com/products https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/acconeer-ab/A111/1891-1000-ND/8040771 ...

Joel_Mckay

I actually have implemented serial communication using termios.h . Fortunately, it seemed to work well with 1Mbps baud rate although manual said me not to do that. With most FTDI USB-to-serial adapters they have much larger fifo buffers than classic hardware uarts, and easily achieve 3MBaud with th...

Joel_Mckay

There are a number of ways to handle the UART buffers in Linux, and it is somewhat limited by which driver you are using. Normally, a threaded C program will simply use a blocking Canonical mode with buffer reads terminated by '\n', and consumes negligible cpu time while waiting for a key character ...

Joel_Mckay

No, the camera cannot interfere with the HAT I2C. My mistake, as it has been a few years.... this was probably what I was thinking about. I'm not sure there is a fix. At least not with sane timescales. The problem as I remember it is that the GPU need access to the I2C to talk to the camera. If you...

Joel_Mckay

I tried this and it didn't end cleanly, as there seemed to be several hard to replicate bugs after it completed. It would be wise to simply use a fresh/clean foundation raspbian install, and simply import your deb package list selections. One could also try out a pre-setup distro we maintain for our...

Joel_Mckay

First try it with CVLC to see if it is still hanging the system. As a precaution, disable the HAT eeprom i2c bus, as the Camera module can interfere with i2c bus access. In theory, an open-collector bus drive contention can't cause a "short", but can corrupt the protocol in bizarre ways. Other than ...

Joel_Mckay

SLC flash is still manufactured, and is good for over 100k writes. MLC ("Sandisk ultra", and most others) flash about 10k writes. TLC are only good for under 5k writes, but in my experience can be under 1.4k writes. Most USB flash-drives are of the lowest quality type. Also, not all USB-to-SATA adap...

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