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Thought 70: Determinism.

Hold on your butts, this one is a wild ride, and specifically from my point of view. It's more a journey from when I was about 6, until today, and a little bit beyond that, about a week under normal conditions, but that last part flucuates quite a bit. I cannot explain all of it, but I can describe my experiences, and you don't have to believe them, they are merely my observations. I feel I have to start with sleep and dreaming, since so much of the experience is rooted inside dreams and more specfically dejavu. We have to suspend the dejavu for a moment to get through this, but trust me, we'll get back there, it's too important to leave out. I am a lucid dreamer, in full color, full audio, lots of detail, but not sharp details. Note that last one, it's important as well. I have been my whole life or as far back as I can remember, dreamed vividly of all my childhood nightmares and having the ability to conjure heroes to fight them. This battle somewhere in the...
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Thought 68: Thing-A-Day 9: Yocto WiFi

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.

Thought 67: Thing-A-Day 8: Plants!

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.

Thought 66: Thing-A-Day 7: Gardenator Prototype

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.

Thought 64: Thing-A-Day 5: Yocto and Excavator

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.