Post AkVGR0CtxqcaNWaN2e by wonka@chaos.social
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(DIR) Post #AkV8t40MdeAadFahcm by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-31T20:52:43Z
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I found a box at ewaste. It's got a serial port (or at least a DB9) on one side, and then what looks like a raspi on the other. So I grabbed it, thinking it was just another raspi-in-a-box and those are always handy.
(DIR) Post #AkV9JiinsRJ4RT5WFM by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-31T20:53:22Z
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The bottom says it's a Wrong Way Module by ISS Inc. And it runs off 5v? sounds Raspi to me!
(DIR) Post #AkV9Jl5D66PzlXaRRw by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-31T20:53:35Z
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Nope... that's not a raspi.
(DIR) Post #AkV9JmKUSmEddDk9uC by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-31T20:54:19Z
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For some reason, there's two serial ports, and one of them is glued inside the case. You can't use it. Why is it even here? Are they just reusing an existing cable?
(DIR) Post #AkV9Jne1ZdSFi5tGzY by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-31T20:54:44Z
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So it turns out this is a boundary devices NITROGEN6-REV4.
(DIR) Post #AkV9JolVPJ27BaOlI8 by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-31T20:56:17Z
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So I went and found a datasheet. It's a quad-core ARM Cortex A9 running at 1ghz, with 1 gigabyte of RAM.It's got SATA and PCIe and ethernet, USB, it can decode H.264 in hardware... this is a pretty generic SBC. The board was designed in 2012, but this is a 2015 revision of it.
(DIR) Post #AkVBFfI0tZoQY0kdVI by k@layer8.space
2024-07-31T20:56:04Z
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@foone Oh boy foone thread time!!
(DIR) Post #AkVBc5ImrWLRavnsgq by FurryBeta@shark.community
2024-07-31T20:56:19Z
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@foone I miss going thru the ewasted box at work. I had gotten some useful stuff from it
(DIR) Post #AkVBl5l6X8Y9cLLNIW by wonka@chaos.social
2024-07-31T20:56:23Z
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@foone Doesn't exactly look like any Pi I know...
(DIR) Post #AkVCm3tx1ZJa6JVZ68 by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-31T20:58:19Z
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https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/986/Boundary_Nitrogen6X-3193544.pdffun things in the datasheet: You can get PCIe over 10 pins (3 of which are grounds!). That's pretty low pin count! Also: one of the connectors is for "Android buttons". On/Back/Home/Menu/Volume Up/Down. This is just a chip off a phone, but they put it in an SBC formfactor.
(DIR) Post #AkVCm6hId3yelwc0IK by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-31T20:59:51Z
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I've misplaced my microSD card reader so I can't image the card yet.
(DIR) Post #AkVCm7er3dcFkeTZ7g by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-31T21:01:17Z
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so I found the product:It's the Wrong Way Alerting Solution by Image Sensing Solutions:https://www.imagesensing.com/assets/documents/products/wrongway/wrong-way-ltr.pdf
(DIR) Post #AkVCm8aHc7YMclLQdU by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-31T21:01:46Z
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apparently this talks to a camera and analyzes the footage: if a car drives the wrong way down a road, it can send you email/SMS alerts.
(DIR) Post #AkVCmAeFwJv51fDd6e by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-31T21:02:50Z
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The manual shows it used with some other parts: an IO module and some DIN mounts. It just talks to an IP camera so that's not part of this kit.
(DIR) Post #AkVCmBboMtYg0N5Bw0 by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-31T21:08:42Z
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https://www.imagesensing.com/assets/documents/products/AID/wrong-way-alerting-solution-user-guide.pdfYou can also have the device set up to start an RTSP stream at you when it detects wrong-way-driving, so you could have a monitor set up that just plays when people drive the wrong way.
(DIR) Post #AkVCmCwPPnd28Xj9g8 by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-31T21:12:56Z
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god this is the worst type of manual.It's the kind where you can tell there was a contract line item that said "all functions must be documented" so they did just that (and only that) in the manual. It just goes through every single screen and every single textbox and button on them. it doesn't really help anyone.
(DIR) Post #AkVDrvSTQdehbf12UC by rumi@corneill.es
2024-07-31T21:02:25Z
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@foone gg very good joke
(DIR) Post #AkVEeUYyDGw4NkDF8y by Canageek@wandering.shop
2024-07-31T21:14:55Z
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@foone that is very specific
(DIR) Post #AkVFHMwMUJcu2BgxCC by dzwiedziu@mastodon.social
2024-07-31T21:27:04Z
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@fooneThey probably put it… the wrong way (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞/me runs away, yay!
(DIR) Post #AkVFPu0DRo22tKZ09A by whitequark@mastodon.social
2024-07-31T21:32:02Z
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@foone lowest you can go for pcie is 5
(DIR) Post #AkVFYNFyZ5aHwEyV6G by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-31T21:33:52Z
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@whitequark now I'm wondering if anyone has run PCIe over a 5-pin mini-USB cable
(DIR) Post #AkVGR0CtxqcaNWaN2e by wonka@chaos.social
2024-07-31T22:11:14Z
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@foone How would that work? Are there mini USB cables that have five pins on both sides?@whitequark
(DIR) Post #AkVGYI7tjtBnytikzo by whitequark@mastodon.social
2024-07-31T22:12:37Z
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@foone it would probably not work
(DIR) Post #AkVGslfnavKBPWLFWC by feuerrot@chaos.social
2024-07-31T22:23:43Z
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@foone @whitequark @manawyrm @Toble_Miner ?
(DIR) Post #AkVHH7kHBM7aog398a by gregly@retro.pizza
2024-07-31T22:27:52Z
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@foone That actually sounds useful, so I’m sure it was cancelled for not being profitable enough