BerkeleyLUG meetup this Sunday 2023-02-12

[goossbears]

Hey everyone,
Timely reminder here of the first Berkeley Linux User Group meetup of the month.
Both the virtual and the in-person physical meetups start at 11:00am PST this Sunday, February 12th, and go to 2:00pm or however late people want to participate.
Please see the currently available meetup schedule at https://berkeleylug.com/meetings gratefully provided by Michael P. for further BerkeleyLUG meetup details.

Info of virtual meetup thru Jit.si Meet ...
https://meet.jit.si/BerkeleyLUG
Dial-in: +1.512.647.1431 PIN: 1036 1972 20#

*In-person meetup is at the SoDoI Coffee Tasting House:
2438 Durant Ave. -- located in the corridor of several stores
between Durant and Channing, under parking structure
Berkeley, CA 94704-1611
1-510-990-6487

SoDoI Coffee Tasting House webpage is at https://sodoicoffee.com/company/tasting-house/ and Michael's location-directions and parking info are at the Meetings webpage .
+ An OpenStreetMap.org approximation for locating SoDoI Coffee Tasting House is at https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/41746370 -- although likely best to instead refer to Michael's written directions at the Meetings webpage
+ Writeup on Yelp is at https://www.yelp.com/biz/sodoi-coffee-tasting-house-berkeley-2

Please note that this upcoming Sunday is also Super Bowl Sunday (see e.g. https://www.espn.com/nfl/super-bowl/ ), featuring the Kansas City Chiefs versus the Philadelphia Eagles.

Kickoff time is 3:30pm PST (=4:30pm MST in Glendale, AZ), so there should be sufficient time to attend part of the Berkeley Linux User Group meetup and then attend any Super Bowl LVII watchings/events afterwards.

One could even stick around SoDoI Coffee Tasting House during the First Half of the Super Bowl in order to get some less-interrupted work done (assuming that SoDoI's patrons would much prefer watching the Super Bowl on larger-screen TVs/monitors elsewhere rather than individually streaming the game at the cafe itself!) :-)

-A

[Rick Moen]

Quoting goossbears (acoh...@gmail.com):

> Please note that this upcoming Sunday is also Super Bowl Sunday (see
> e.g. https://www.espn.com/nfl/super-bowl/ ), featuring the Kansas
> City Chiefs versus the Philadelphia Eagles.

I believe the preferred spelling is SuperbOwl Sunday, the day once a
year when -- because of some obscure sports contest -- the roads and
woods are unusually free of crowding, permitting walks and sighting of
owls.

Photos of particularly superb owls should ideally be posted to
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superbowl/ .

I personally intend to be in the Santa Cruz Mountains starting about
3pm, on a trail, keeping an eye out for owls.

--
Cheers,
Rick Moen ROMANI, ITE DOMVM!
ri...@linuxmafia.com
McQ! (4x80)

[tom r lopes]

Running late today. May not be able to get a good spot. 

Thomas

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[ace36]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 10:30 AM tom r lopes <tomr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Running late today. May not be able to get a good spot.

Thomas

Am also running late due to a fire/smoke situation in an adjoining apartment.

SoDoI arrival-time revised ~1hr forward(?)

-Aaron

 

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[tom r lopes]

SoDoI was pretty crowded today.  There wasn't really any space to spread out 

and try the display gadget thing that I have been talking about.  Maybe next month.  

Anyways, Bob brought a couple of Pi Zero's with USB device attachments.  The Zero 

has some test pads on the bottom that bring out the USB pins.  One of his devices 

connected to the pads with pogo pins like this one: 

https://www.amazon.com/iUniker-Expansion-Breakout-Raspberry-Inserted/dp/B07NKNBZYG

That worked pretty well.  Bob had it already configured on the Pi side.  The host side 

he had a chromebook and that took us a while to figure out.  He didn't want to enable 

developer and the built in shell doesn't have ssh.  We found a chrome browser extension 

that does ssh and we were in!  

The other one is soldered to those test pads like this one:  

https://www.amazon.com/Waveshare-Pi-Zero-USB-Adapter/dp/B07KJGQWVH

After struggling a while we decided that maybe the soldering wasn't right.  

(None of us can see well enough to tell) 

Anyways I brought it home to check and repair under a microscope:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/itQwPTm6TtotqTnP7

Working!

Still had a lot of trouble with it.  I used my new Pinecil soldering iron (very nice for a cheap iron, 

I'm really impressed.)  Soldering looked good and the Zero booted right up powered by the laptop 

USB.  But no USB ethernet.  I spent way too long thinking it was a software problem.  I was 

missing a data pin!  The photo's above show success.  SSH and VNC.  

But the Pi is not connecting to WIFI.  I'm thinking now that it may be that the laptop is not 

providing enough power over the single USB port.  I'll try another day with higher current power.  

Thomas

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