EDATEC industrial AI Camera ED-AIC2020

By Maximilian Batz | 2023-10-26

What is it? This is a rugged industrial camera with built-in LED illumination, and a Raspberry Pi Compute Module (CM4), which AI algorithms can be run on. Advantages Due to integration of key components, this AI camera reduces installation time and maintenance efforts. It provides an easy mounting interface, and is suited for a rugged…

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Controlling LEDs on Alpine Linux using the command line

By Maximilian Batz | 2020-11-06

We have developed an embedded Raspberry Pi Compute Module carrier board for industrial use: the PCCB. As you can see, there are three (directly) user programmable LEDs on the PCCB: USER / INFO / ACT. These are defined in the device tree. For example, we can define the following in our device tree overlay: //LEDs…

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Entscheidung für Raspberry Pi als Embedded Development-Plattform

By Maximilian Batz | 2020-08-28

Als einer der approved Raspberry Pi Reseller, und einem offiziellen Reseller der Pi Zero Serie (wir waren übrigens der erste auf dem europäischen Festland) mit starken technischen Kompetenzen rund um die Raspberry Pi Plattform möchten wir Sie bei Ihrer Entscheidung für oder gegen die Plattform unterstützen, und einige immer wieder kehrende Fragen beantworten. Die Abbildung…

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Raspbian SSH Server fails after upgrade from Stretch to Buster (no SSH connection)

By Maximilian Batz | 2020-07-31

I used this excellent guide to update my Raspbian from Stretch to Buster: https://pimylifeup.com/upgrade-raspbian-stretch-to-raspbian-buster/ After rebooting my Pi, the SSH connection was gone. Logging into the Pi using the attached keyboard and monitor allowed me to debug the issue: service ssh status journalctl -u ssh -n 200 “Missing privilege separation directory /run/sshd” This directory needs…

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Our own product PCCB: Pi Control Carrier Board

By Maximilian Batz | 2020-03-11

This is a quick overview of our product, PCCB (Pi Control Carrier Board). PCCB is already in a second revision with significantly expanded features. How does it look? What does it do? The PCCB (Pi Control Carrier Board) is an industrial carrier board for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module. It offers several industrial interfaces, and…

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Vorteile von Android™ vs. Linux

By Maximilian Batz | 2019-02-06

Technische Grundlagen Android™ basiert auf dem Linux-Kernel, optimiert ihn aber besonders auf embedded Systeme & mobile Plattformen. Android nutzt den Linux Kernel mit einigen Anpassungen. Es unterscheidet sich jedoch grundlegend von üblichen Linux Distributionen, wie bspw. Debian / Raspbian / Alpine Linux. Üblicherweise nutzen Distributionen die GNU C Bibliothek (glibc), und einen X server (bspw.…

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Interview with Simon Long of Raspberry Pi about the Raspberry Pi Desktop, UI design, and much more!

By Maximilian Batz | 2019-01-04

Important background information: this interview was done in early July 2018, so some applications to which Simon refers might already be released, etc. Max: This is the interview with Simon Long of the Raspberry Pi Foundation who is mainly responsible for Raspbian the desktop OS. Simon: That’s right. Max: Many applications like VeraCrypt release binaries…

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