Even though I keep extensive systems logs for everything in the house - including the lowly RPi systems - I shudder to think about doing a scratch Raspbian build and end up with what I have running perfectly now. It was a blessing that the RPi foundation provided a totally painless upgrade path, and frankly dumb luck I found it without actually thinking about looking for it first.
And of course, I've imaged the new card already
OT, but related:
I hate building new system drives for mature systems (meaning there's a hella lot of infrastructure that has to be recreated). I just finished building a new W7U system drive for my workstation (which is a 6 core/12 thread 3.6ghz Xeon/Xtreme beast of a machine I built in 2011 that still maxes out the "Windows Experience" performance metric) while still remaining open for business (so, nights and weekends).
Between the endless OS and Office updates, the CAD/CAE suite installs and their updates, the rest of the application installations and their updates, restoring all the different email accounts and stores, re-establishing shares on customer sites, setting up the system environmentals and performance tweaks, and on and on, it took two weeks/three weekends to get to where I could park the old SSD and use the new one full time for real.
A friggin' horror story necessitated entirely by Windows Entropy®, a phenomenon that anyone that's run every MS OS (except Bob and ME) knows full well is real...
Cheers!
And after a bit of cleanup and adding in a header for a fan. This will be my test unit I think. I've found a version of the mini that doesn't squish A4 into the middle of the board and I'll probably use that footprint to make any further revisions to the design
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2 sided
Just a concept for right now. Trying to minimize how many wires I need. I have double sided pcb stock so it's not a problem. I'll probably outsource the mini boards.
Here is what I've got so far for the mini
Could you draw up a Fritzing part for this knock off Deek-Robot pro-mini please http://www.dominicdube.com/blog/arduino-pro-mini-pinout/Don't forget a voltage divider or a logic level converter for your hc-05 rx, also any reason you aren't using the mini's raw pin and onboard regulator?
I made a fritzing part the other day for my knock-off minis so I could draw up a pcb for a project I'm working on, if your mini's look like that one and you'd like the file let me know.
[Edit] Ah, just saw your post #166 where you talked about removing the voltage divider. For the record, I asked about that in the beginning of the thread and got cussed at, see post #7.
Could you draw up a Fritzing part for this knock off Deek-Robot pro-mini please http://www.dominicdube.com/blog/arduino-pro-mini-pinout/
[...]As well as this version of mini fills out the board I may add the resistors back just so day_tripper doesn't flip out.
Thanks-worked like a charm.See attached, download it and rename it to a fzz file type. I just made some quick adjustments to the default pro mini to make it look like the one you asked for, not perfect but should get the job done. If I were you I would edit it further to delete the FTDI header, they only get in the way for me.
(I renamed the file from .fzz to a .xml to get it to upload, I apologize in advance if this is in violation of any rules)
That's next on my list. Just bought a laser printer!
Finding the right bit is the issue.... Got one more place to try then I'll have to look online.
How did your board work? Any updates?
Where are you getting them from?I think I have a problem. I keep ordering hc-05's for no reason! I have like 8 of them now. It's becoming an addiction!
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