@geerlingguy Hey Jeff, Daughter wants a Camera for Photos, decent chunk will be macro, vlogging, and maybe webcam stream.
Sony ZV-E10 comes up a few places. Only downside is 720p webcam mode.
For around the same 600-800 price, anything you would recommend as better choice?
Has anyone managed to use the #PiMoroni NVMe base board by directly loading OS on to the NVME drive? Or do I really have to do the dance of loading OS on SD card first? @geerlingguy@gadgetoid#RaspberryPi
@geerlingguy Re: pushbutton to short two gpio pins, you don't want that because.... it will short two gpio pins :) You also need at least a current-limiting resistor.
@ednl heh, well... in my case it's for hitting power off via GPIO in testing. Shouldn't be an issue, I currently use a little jumper but it's just annoying (and tiny)
Odd, but cool; this is one of ArduCam's new Pivistation 5 pre-assembled cameras. Good enough for indoor use, but meant for camera development with a variety of their nice Sony sensors.
Been testing review units they sent, they're currently running a Kickstarter.
@geerlingguy you push out a ton of vids nowadays and I never miss any of them, on any of your channels. You getting the new studio has been a big blessing, either bcos it made it easier to produce more videos or it just became necessary in order for you to pay it off, or perhaps a bit of both. Either way, I'm happy!
@irfan mostly it's easier now because I can record during the day. I used to have to wait until kids were in bed! Plus I have room to work on long term projects.
The workbench is coming together—and Red Shirt Jeff made sure to inaugurate it with a Hacksmith mini lightsaber and a little magic smoke 🫢 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toEvV2QGVnU
@geerlingguy have you looked into Meshtastic at all? I feel like you and your dad could put out some awesome videos about maximising range for LoRa nodes that the Meshtastic crowd would love (and it would bring a lot of attention to the hobby too!)
@andy_warb@Ryanteck If you have a network that can exchange messages, you have a network that can do other fun stuff, learning mesh networking is fun, even as a basic exercise.
There are a few folks around STL who run it, so I think we'll try it out at some point.
@geerlingguy have you experimented with rack mounting RPi 5 with bottom mounted NVMe hat (like the Pimoroni one)? Is a bit niche, but checking to see before I start designing a 3D Printed mount 🫣
HamClock is easy to get going, but (a) any chance there's a retina-friendly option, and (b) is there a friendly fork where the source code is maintained somewhere in git, instead of in tarball-form?
@randy Interesting! I'll have to dig in on that side of things as I explore the various bits of software. So far for SDR, there are a ton of great FOSS options!
@Sknashville Ha, that's a good analogy! Like my wife makes pasta on her kitchenaid every few months. But if she did every month, she should get the nicer pasta maker.
@HankB Yeah; I mention that in the video I posted today—there are still a few little bugs, but I think eyes are on them now, since the M.2 HAT+ is here, and more people will encounter little issues!
There are thousands of these guys, crunching underfoot, being eaten by every critter in our yard, and now making the continuous racket... only a few making noise today, but it's coming. 80+ dB of cicada cacophony!!
@lina They are big and ugly (but kind in a fun bug way), and they really make a squish when you're walking around doing yard work and don't see one underfoot (there are thousands and thousands in my yard right now).
