Sunday, January 12, 2020

SBCFinder: Libre Tritium

SBCFinder: Libre Tritium: Tritium is a platform for three unique Allwinner SoCs built to utilize a common PCB to address a whole range of market segments. Allwinner's H2+, H3, and H5 system-on-chips offer low cost, low complexity, and flexible integration into numerous applications. It offers plentiful low-speed digital and analog IO interfaces, 32-bit and 64-bit ISA, up to 2GB of DDR3, camera interface, and 4K HDMI output.

Custom firmware on Smart Bulb | Home Automation #1





Recently I got this bulb from Amazon, which can be controlled from Cloud. As i prefer to make evrything local, connected to OpenHAB so that it can be fast and internet independant as well, I wanted to reflash it. Luckily i came across tuya-convert which is really awesome. No hardware hacks, get a Raspberry Pi and you are done. So enjoy the video !!

Saturday, January 4, 2020

Multiple UART Ports in Raspberry Pi using CD4053 | Raspberry Pi #32

The video is all about multiplexing the UART port exposed through the GPIO pins of Raspberry Pi. This allows to have couple of UART ports out of Raspberry Pi uisng CD4053, an Analog MUX/DEMUX IC. However over here I am using a pre fabricated module that I got online and sold as UART multiplexer, but this uses the same MUX IC.