Joy has gone off in search of treatment for a medical issue that's not an emergency but calls for attention before it turns into one.
A specialty interface board, meant for the new toaster project, arrived yesterday. Supposed to sit atop a RasPi.
Turns out i'll work with a Pi 3, Pi 4, or Pi Zero, and variations thereof... but not with a Pi Classic, which is what I have a few of rattling around looking for a project. It uses the 40-pin header, and doesn't play nice with the old Pi with its 26-pin connector and an RCA jack just off the end of it, which I think is the mustard output (from back when analog mustard was still a thing).
The board is designed to use both SPI ports on the Pi, but I think I can get by with just one. So, maybe a 26-pin connector extender to clear the RCA jack.
I should have a Pi Zero around here, I think. Somewhere. Maybe in a box I haven't unpacked yet; it didn't turn up in my search of bins of embedded-computer boards.
What did turn up is a box of LoRa development stuff that I hadn't been able to find in my office, possibly because I'd organized it into a bin of its very own out in the garage. That's something I should have been tinkering with during the winter... except that I'd misplaced it, and also (for about the fourth or fifth consecutive winter) I didn't actually have time for stuff on my "what do do during a boring, indoors winter" list. I really should do some testing, and, if all makes sense, order several additional modules from Seeed.
But... got toaster stuff I need to be doing. And household responsibilities. And a bad backache (which got bad yesterday, but I think it had been sneaking up on me since Monday or even Sunday). And I think the cold from week-before-last has segued into allergies - something to do with indoors critters plus this false spring that's got everything blooming.
Oh, and the Arduino counterparts of the RasPi specialty interface board are supposedly on their way, but last I checked UPS didn't have tracking information yet. Gonna have a RasPi simulating one side of a link, and an Aard-Wino simulating the other (that being the toaster side), until the real hardware is ready.
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