Just trying to untangle the threads
Updated July 8th 2026 Well that didn t last long! As of July 6th, the price of this specific unit has gone up to $159 (US) for the 4GB model and $199 (US) for the 8GB model. Hope you managed to snag one while they were really cheap. It s very unusual (in these days of Continue reading Bargain Basement Updated
Again, something that isn t directly ESP8266/32 connected, but interesting non the less. This little beastie popped up on CNX-Software yesterday (and if CNX isn t in your daily reading list, you should add it!). It s another one of the crop of tiny, cheap, Linux-capable microprocessor boards that have recently hit the market. This is the LicheeRV-Nano board from Sipeed, Continue reading Either/Or
Note to self:- Must get into the habit of re-installing the bootstrap loader when doing upgrades (will be happier in the end). I thought I d worked out a fairly safe path with my FreeBSD 14.0 upgrades. First of all, I installed a VM and explored the new release. Nothing exploded when I touched it. It looked like FreeBSD, quacked Continue reading FreeBSD Diaries 14.0 Upgrade Man-Trap
In the first part of this series, we looked at accessing our LuckFox Pico Pro using an RDNIS network connection over the USB port to connect with the minimal busybox Linux shipped from the factory. In this second part, we ll explore replacing that minimal system with a much more capable release of Alpine Linux to access Continue reading Getting started with the LuckFox Pico Pro [Part II]
I ve been diving down multiple rabbit holes recently with Linux on really tiny SBCs. Nope, not the Raspberry Pi, but things that are roughly a quarter of the size and just one-quarter of the price, too. One of these is the LuckFox Pico Pro (an ARM7 board with a whopping 128MB of memory). See links at the bottom Continue reading Getting started with the LuckFox Pico Pro
My search for a daily steal this week has been influenced by the thought that I d quite like to upgrade the backbone network in the old, ancestral home to 2.5GbE. I don t particularly want to go all the way to 10Gb fibre, basically because it s too much of a hassle to pull new fibre between Continue reading This should be good but isn t.
I came across today s choice while idly meandering the less-travelled passageways of Mr Baba s emporium looking for an ESP32-S3 board on which to run Linux, but got side-tracked when I noticed that the older B-Max N3350 (Apollo Lake) machines were now down to less than $70 (nope, I don t recommend them, given what else is Continue reading The Daily Steal
Have you ever wondered what that column header, EXPANDSZ , in the zpool list command actually refers to, or why it is always empty? Below is a short, real-world example of how it can help you (and did help me). TL/DR; The manual page for zpoolprops tells us that EXPANDSZ is the Amount of uninitialized space Continue reading FreeBSD Diaries Expanding ZFS Pools
Update Aug 20th 2023 This board, as well as the additional Ethernet RJ45 PCB, is now available from the SpotPear Electronics shop on Aliexpress (as usual, this is for your information only, not an endorsement of the Milk-V Duo or of SpotPear). News today of a very low cost, RISC-V based, ESP (and possibly Continue reading YAESPK (Yet Another ESP Killer)
This is just a brain-dump of the information I ve gleaned so far while trying to load Linux onto one of these boards. Update 9th Dec 2023 Just a note here that [ValdikSS], who has contributed useful hints and pointers here in the past, has recently released UoWPrint, a product based on the 3G-IoT-A and Continue reading Orange-Pi 3G-IoT-A Info