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Jan 6, 2024

IoT LoRa Gateway

Last update 2019

ChirpStack Gateway OS

Last update 2022

ChirpStack Gateway OS is an open-source Linux based embedded OS which can run on various LoRa® gateway models. The goal is to make it easy to get started with LoRaWAN® and the ChirpStack open-source LoRaWAN Network Server stack with the minimum steps required to setup your gateway(s).

Image types

chirpstack-gateway-os-base :

Provides the ChirpStack Concentratord and ChirpStack Gateway Bridge pre-installed including a CLI utility for gateway configuration.

chirpstack-gateway-os-full:

Provides a full ChirpStack Network Server and ChirpStack Application Server environment running on the gateway, on top of all the features that are provided by the chirpstack-gateway-os-base image.

Shields / kits

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Raspberry Pi Zero W:

Base:

Full:

Raspberry Pi 1A+, 1B+:

Base:

Full:


Raspberry Pi3B, 3B+, 3A+:

Base:

Full:


Raspberry Pi 4B:

Base:

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Install on Top of Raspbian:

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Fold for Covid Balena x Rosetta

Last update 2021

What is Fold for Covid, and how does it help?

The Fold for Covid project aims to make it easy to donate spare compute capacity to support COVID-19 research with a few simple steps. This effort contributes to the Rosetta@Home project, led by the Baker Laboratory at the University of Washington, which uses distributed computing to help scientists and doctors find potential treatments for COVID-19.

Your contributions help researchers look for proteins that bind to the famous “spike” protein on COVID-19. By finding these binding proteins, doctors hope to develop medicines that prevent the virus from entering healthy cells.

Do you have a spare computer or single board computer at home? Join the fight!

How does it help?

Contributing the computing capacity of spare devices helps power Rosetta@Home a project that uses distributed computing to conduct research.The Baker Laboratory at the University of Washington runs Rosetta@Home to simulate protein folding, in efforts to discover potential treatments for COVID-19.

Rosetta@Home has been operating for many years, helping identify compounds and “designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer, and Alzheimer's.” At the moment, researchers focus on COVID-19, and attempt to predict the structure of proteins important to the disease as well as to produce new, stable mini-proteins to be used as potential therapeutics and diagnostics.

All the results from Rosetta@Home are public, such as the SARS-CoV-2 models that you can download. here

How does it work?

Fold for Covid was created to help increase awareness of the Rosetta@home project, and to simplify the process of getting involved. We at balena wanted to use our expertise in deploying and maintaining huge fleets of connected devices in some way to help with the current global health situation. We applied what we do best: making it as easy as possible for people to get projects up and running.

We noticed what the team over at Rosetta@home is doing and used our efforts to boost the computing power available to them by simplifying the process required to get devices online to help conduct protein folding simulations.

Setting up a new computer

Usually, when you set up a computer, you have to install an operating system (OS) first, before you can install any other software. That might be Raspbian in the case of a Raspberry Pi, or Windows/Linux in the case of a Laptop. After you’ve installed the OS, you can start to install and set up the software you want.

We’ve cut all of that out. We built our own OS image, compatible with a whole range of computers; laptops, desktops and small devices like the Raspberry Pi. Next, we preloaded the OS image with the software required to contribute to the Rosetta project, and configured it with the settings necessary to get to work immediately.

You simply need to download the image and flash it to your device. Boot it up and it appears online and ready to start work. That’s it.

Getting online

When you download the OS image from the getting started guide getting started guide, we’ve set the system up to automatically configure the Wi-Fi connection with the network name and passphrase that you specify. Note: These credentials are injected into the image and then disposed of.

Running the software

Once the OS has been installed, it automatically boots up and gets to work. The device joins the global fleet of balena-powered devices, meaning that if there are any updates to the project (via the Github repository ), they are downloaded and fully applied automatically. The idea: to get your device running, and to keep it running, without any extra involvement.

We included some additional features like a web interface you can use to see status at http://foldforcovid.local, and your device will also output the same information to a connected display if you have one.

Behind the scenes

We’re running balenaOS, and the application has been set up to run in containers on balenaCloud, which takes care of device updates. Your device is automatically added to a group of devices, called a fleet, that runs the application from the “Fold for Covid” Github repository.

If you’re interested in learning more about this process, head on over to the balena site to find out more.

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Cosmostreamer-ng

Last update 2022

With Cosmostreamer you can connect your DJI Camera to Raspberry Pi

You can build you own Cosmostreamer NG box, it's not a difficult. But anyway, you need to buy license for software.

DIY Instructions:

Download(Need License to use):

remote.itPi

Last update 2022

Add port forwardless, secure access to your network resources for remote work

remote.it is faster to set up, simpler to manage, less costly, and safer than a traditional VPN. See how you can turn a Raspberry Pi into a remote access gateway in less than 10 minutes.

What is remote.it?

remote.it allows you to make secure remote connections between two computers.

The remoteitPi OS default user is "pi", password is "raspberry"

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Lite:

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Install on existing Raspbian Buster:

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Oracle Linux for Arm

Last update 2022

The following Oracle Linux image is provided as a development preview for the Arm architecture, specifically for use with Raspberry Pi 4 B, Raspberry Pi 3B and Raspberry Pi 3B+. Included in the development preview is Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 6, based on the upstream 5.4 kernel. For installation instructions and information on how to setup your yum configuration, please review the Release Notes for Oracle Linux 7 Update 8.

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Open BSD

Last update 2022

The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Our efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. As an example of the effect OpenBSD has, the popular OpenSSH software comes from OpenBSD.

OpenBSD is freely available from our download sites.

The current release is OpenBSD 6.7, released May 19, 2020.

OpenBSD is developed entirely by volunteers. The project's development environment and developer events are funded through contributions collected by The OpenBSD Foundation. Contributions ensure that OpenBSD will remain a vibrant and free operating system.


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Install on Raspberry Pi 4:


  You will need a microSD card (only a small one is needed), a USB

  storage device, a TTL serial interface adapter (e.g. CP2102 USB-UART

  converter), and a cable to attach this to the TXD/RXD/GND pins on the

  https://pinout.xyz/ header on the board.


  Follow the installation instructions at https://github.com/pftf/RPi4

  to install UEFI firmware to a FAT-formatted microSD card.


  Use the dd(1) utility to copy the miniroot to the USB storage device.

  The command would likely be, under OpenBSD:

  dd if=miniroot67.fs of=/dev/rsd1c bs=1m


  When you have connected the serial to your computer, a command such

  as "cu -l cuaU0 -s 115200" (assuming cuaU0 is your serial port device)

  should connect you to the board's console.


  Shortly after powering the board, you should see messages on the serial

  console starting with "Initialising SDRAM" followed by messages from the

  UEFI firmware.  If you have a monitor connected to the HDMI port, you

  should see a multi-coloured screen followed by UEFI firmware output.

  If you do not see this, re-check your UEFI firmware installation.


  OpenBSD should boot automatically soon after loading the UEFI firmware.

  If a monitor is connected you will see messages from the boot loader,

  but after the kernel has started running you will only see output on

  the serial console.

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ARM64 Install:

ARM 64 Minimal:

ARM7 Minimal:

FabScan Pi

Last update 2022

FabScan is an open source 3D laser scanner. The project started in 2010 at Germany's first FabLab in Aachen. The FabScan PI is the next generation of the FabScan 3D Laser Scanner.

A Raspberry Pi 2 and a Raspberry Pi camera module are used to turn the FabScan PI into a stand-alone and web-enabled 3D Laser Scanner.

You have to unzip the file to get the .img file. After flashing the image to an SD card point your browser to

http://[ ip-address-of-your-raspberry-pi ]

It is also possible to join the web-enabled FabScanPi user interface by pointing your browser to

http://fabscanpi.local

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PiDeck

Last update 2018

PiDeck is digital music played old school.

To use a PiDeck, plug in a USB stick containing audio files, select the track you want, and play the control record just as if it was analogue. That's all it does, the DJ skills are up to you. Pull out the USB stick and the next DJ can take over. We wanted to make a system which was simple, accessible and fun. It's the Joy of Decks.

How?

You will need:

This is a DIY project, no warranty is given or implied :-)

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Sampler Box

Last update 2022

Features


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