A Million Useless Thoughts

Today's goal in the build toward the house of cloud PI is to add WiFi and SSHD to our current Yocto Image. Currently following instructions from This Blog . Stay tuned with the results. One more thing here, we will a do a full wrap up once we get a build that is ready to be setup and will open a repository to all of the changes that were done to make a pi-zero-w that auto-connects and can do updates to the image. Looks like everything is ok, but we'll need a make a new layer to make WiFi work.

Got all of the seeds planted into the plant grow lights. So progress on this. Unforutnately not quite done on the Yocto Side. But progress, it looks like the output 'core-image-base-raspberrypi0-wifi-20210205102113.rootfs.wic' Is what we can use without having 'dd' working correctly under WSL. So now will try out the image and make sure it works. Using the WIC works! But no WiFi on startup. Next steps WiFi, then SSHD and we'll be up about what a raspian build looks like.

Getting the gardenator prototype onto the grow lights. This includes a monitor for temperator and humidity sensor and a moister sensor for the plants. Part of the goal was to get a timelasp on the plant growth, but the camera fell off, so we will have to switch out the PI with a new PI once we get more of the yocto setup going.

Put the grow lights back together today. Most of the work was spent getting it back out of storage. This is in preperation for the prototype gardenator.

Yocto is currently building as Dunfell. We will know more later on how well this works. Excavator switch from relays to H-bridge L298N is working so much better. The relays were getting back powered and stuck on after an abrupt stop or turn. The H-Bridge has fixed this issue. Now we need to fix the rest up the rest of the excavator. Vitory on dunfell building. Now to put this on a SD card and test it out.

Let continue the thing-a-day with continued effort on the Yocto front. We last left off with the Zeus and Ubuntu 18.04. Which has failed. We are now moving on to try and get warrior to work. This currently feels like a bit of a retreat, but so far the results are little different time will tell as it takes a while to build out Yocto. Warrier failed to get files from github. So next up we will try dunfell, this is one past zeus, maybe there was a fix there. Dunfell is also one branch back from the lead branch. Fingers crossed for this working.