Waveshare at ROUGOL, Mon 19th Feb 2024

The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London is:

Waveshare IO Board, presented by Chris Hall

Monday 19th February 2024, 7.45pm

The Duke of Sussex
(upstairs in the Chichester or Petworth Room from 6.30pm)
23 Baylis Road, London, SE1 7AY
http://www.rougol.jellybaby.net/venue.html

Also online via Zoom from 7.30pm

https://rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/

The focus of this month’s talk by Chris Hall will be the Waveshare Mini-B IO board, which Chris will be bringing along to the pub to demonstrate. This board is fitted with a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 with 4GB RAM, 16GB eMMc, a custom RTC and fan controller, a Waveshare 5V variable speed fan and a 512GB NVMe drive. All in the footprint (approx.) of a Pi model 4B.

At present the NVMe drive houses a Linux distro but it also has a filecore partition for the day when RISC OS will be able to see such drives (at present RISC OS can only see an NVMe drive if it is mounted in a USB caddy).

Chris will describe how to prepare an NVMe drive with multi-partitions on it, and also how to build a RTC/fan board using a custom PCB. He’ll also talk about a similar board (RTC/fan) for the Pi Foundation IO board.

If the PCBs arrive in time from China, he will also bring a custom PCB for the Desk Pi to add a RTC – without it pointing downwards so that the box won’t sit flat on the table!

Although the meeting will also be on Zoom, do join us in the pub if you can as you will get a much better view of Chris’s systems and a chance to play with them. Plus there’s food and drink on tap :-)

Our venue is right next to Waterloo Station and there is parking directly outside. Directions here – https://rougol.jellybaby.net/venue.html

For any queries or to receive the Zoom link (same as previous months) contact us – https://rougol.jellybaby.net/contacts/

Bryan.

Some further notes are here

Reminder, the meeting is tomorrow. I’ve seen Chris’s slides and it’s looking really good!

Particularly a reminder for those that logged in last Monday :-)

I’ve put links to Chris’s slideshow and other documents from the talk up on the ROUGOL website – https://rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/2024/feb.html