Distros
311-320IoT LoRa Gateway
Last update 2019The IoT LoRa Gateway can be setup with a few different methods. In this tutorial we will show you how to set it up using our SD Card Image & LoRaWAN Provider The Things Network.
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ChirpStack Gateway OS
Last update 2022ChirpStack 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
Download page:
Raspberry Pi Zero W:
Base:
Full:
Raspberry Pi 1A+, 1B+:
Base:
Full:
Raspberry Pi3B, 3B+, 3A+:
Base:
Full:
Raspberry Pi 4B:
Base:
Full:
Install on Top of Raspbian:
Getting Started:
Fold for Covid Balena x Rosetta
Last update 2021What 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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Need insert SSID and Passphrase to wifi+ethernet version
Raspberry Pi 3B, 3B+(64 bits):
Raspberry Pi 4b:
Cosmostreamer-ng
Last update 2022With 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 2022Add 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.
crossing multiple NATs/firewalls
using a single TCP port
portforwardless: without requiring port forwarding in the router, significantly reducing your network's vulnerability
many TCP-based protocols and applications are supported
SSH/SCP - network console and file transfer
VNC, RDP, Mac Screen Sharing - remotely access the Graphical User Interface (GUI)
http/https (web servers and applications such as node-red)
SMB (Samba) file sharing
other protocols supported under the "custom TCP" option, e.g. MQTT
The remoteitPi OS default user is "pi", password is "raspberry"
Docs:
Download:
Lite:
32 bit:
64 bit:
Install on existing Raspbian Buster:
Deb Package ARM 32 bit Pi OS:
https://downloads.remote.it/remoteit/v4.13.5/remoteit-4.13.5.armhf.rpi.deb
https://downloads.remote.it/remoteit/v4.17.2/remoteit-4.17.2.armhf.rpi.deb
Deb Package ARM 64 bit Pi OS:
https://downloads.remote.it/remoteit/v4.13.5/remoteit-4.13.5.arm64.rpi.deb
https://downloads.remote.it/remoteit/v4.17.2/remoteit-4.17.2.arm64.rpi.deb
CLI Version ARM:
https://downloads.remote.it/cli/v1.7.48/remoteit_linux_armv6
https://downloads.remote.it/cli/v2.0.8/remoteit.arm-v6-linux
CLI ARM64:
Oracle Linux for Arm
Last update 2022The 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.
Download:
https://www.oracle.com/linux/downloads/linux-arm-downloads.html
https://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/otn_software/linux/rpi-ol7.8-image-20200417.img.xz
https://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/otn_software/linux/rpi-ol7.9-image-20210111.img.xz
https://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/otn_software/linux/rpi-ol8.5-image-20211116.img.xz
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Open BSD
Last update 2022The 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.
Download:
ARM64 Install:
ARM 64 Minimal:
https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/arm64/miniroot70.img
https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/arm64/miniroot72.img
ARM7 Minimal:
FabScan Pi
Last update 2022FabScan 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 2018PiDeck 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:
A recent Raspberry Pi (only Pi 3 model B tested so far) and power supply. First generation Raspberry Pi's are not supported, sorry
Touchscreen (single-touch is enough), or a HDMI monitor and keyboard
Stereo, full-duplex I2S or USB soundcard with a phono input stage, or line input and an external pre-amp, soundcard must be supported by ALSA
Micro SD card for the software, at least 2GB in size, and an adaptor to flash it with
Control vinyl, Serato CV02 pressing or later recommended
USB stick containing your favourite music. FLAC format is recommended (16-bit 44100Hz format tested)
Non-automatic record player that can hold speed, with a clean, sharp stylus. It helps scratching if the headshell and arm are adjusted correctly
Slipmat, made from felt or neoprene
Sheet of wax paper from the kitchen drawer, to go under the slipmat
A beverage-proof case would be good. We're still working on that.
This is a DIY project, no warranty is given or implied :-)
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Sampler Box
Last update 2022Features
Drop'n'play sampler: drop .WAV samples on the SD card, and play!
Open source / open hardware
Raspberry Pi computer inside, download the ready-to-use ISO image!
Boot time: 8 seconds
Polyphony: more than 128 voices
Low latency
Memory: can load sample-sets up to 1 GB
Login:
User: root
Password: root
Make it:
Download:
https://www.samplerbox.org/files/images/samplerbox_20170710.img.zip
https://www.samplerbox.org/files/images/samplerbox_20211119.zip
GitHub: