Used Cell Phone Orchestration project

Hi,

I have also a project aimed at developing a low-cost device that can be programmed to perform macroses with your old used cell phone with buttons. Using clever set of MOSFETS it can "press" any button on your phone. I'm goign to use this for High-Altitude Balloon project - to reduce costs of tracking payload to a minimum: you don't need GPS, you don't need radio, you don't need any expensive parts in your payload AS WELL as in your ground station - just a phone that can accept emails and SMS/MMS texts.

Here is the project on hackaday.io https://hackaday.io/project/10130-used-cell-phone-orchestration 

I've published a new Log to the project, which tells about latest soldered and connected tests. Here is a video of what you can do with this device:

Windows Server 2016 TP4 Hyper-V Container fails to start with 80070002

So,

I was playing with new Windows Server containers feature the other day and for some reason Hyper-V container didn't want to start with the following error:

start-container : 'sg-cnt1' failed to start.

'sg-cnt1' failed to initialize: The system cannot find the file specified. (0x80070002).

It took some time and with help of Process Explorer I was able to conclude that WindowsServerCore image, which container host downloads, doesn't contain the template virtual drive (SystemTemplate.vhdx). You can check that NanoServer image does have the template, but not the full windows container image.

You might ask why I don't use a default (non-hyperv) containers? Well, because Microsoft has a bug and you cannot change container computer name - it will change the computer name of the host machine instead. That's why I was trying Hyper-V containers, from breif Nano container examitation I found that this type of container doesn't have this bug. Unfortunately I cannot use the Nano because I need to install some software and on Nano it's going to be difficult.

Solution:

Don't know. I need to find a correct SystemTemplate.vhdx somewhere. I'll update the post when I find.

PoC for Raspberry Pi Zero Qwerty Hat. With USB keyboard.

Hi,

Still participating in Hackaday&Adafruit contest to win Raspberry Pi Zero. Filmed a video with PoC of using USB keyboard attached to Raspberry and Smartphone as a display.

More details there https://hackaday.io/project/9582-pi-zero-arduino-programming-station 

Raspberry Pi Zero Qwerty 40 Hat for Adafruit Hackaday contest

Participating in Adafruit and Hackaday contest about Raspberry Pi Zero. I've proposed somewhat really interesting - a pocket-sized device that can be used on the go to program Arduinos and do a lot of other cool stuff.

https://hackaday.io/project/9582-pi-zero-arduino-programming-station

What you normally don't have in your pocket, but that is absolutely essential for good programming experience is a qwerty keyboard. So I decided to do a Raspberry Pi Zero hat with 40 keys qwerty and headers for directly attaching Arduino Serial connection.

As a monitor you can use your smartphone (with VNC or SSH app) connected via USB or some SPI OLED display connected right to the hat itself.

The project is so much more than just arduinos, but it really requires a lot of time.