Overview Isolating DC/DC supplies have always been quite costly in my designs. They seem to make up the bulk of the end BOM cost. When I need isolated supplies I generally require upwards of 3 kV isolation because of the applications the equipment is used for. I generally always end up selecting the medical grade…
A fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04 will not work with Yocto. Hence I have made this short guide on setting Ubuntu 16.04 ready to be used with Yocto. Open a terminal and run the following Now we will change Ubuntu’s shell from the default dash to bash. Run the following and select no when prompted.
Recently when I created the Qutipi linux distribution I had to select between the old-fashioned sysvinit and systemd. After a bit of research I decided to take the punt and use systemd. I choose systemd over sysvinit for a range of reasons such as the tooling is better (systemctl etc), greater error logging / reporting,…
I’ve recently been documenting my QutiPi project which I’ve been doing at work. All of these are available via the QutiPi GitHub group, however I thought I’d post the guide I wrote today which summaries device trees especially when it comes to the Raspberry Pi. There may be some mistakes however if you’re new to…