I have been kind of bragging on Jason KM4ACK and his Build a Pi project in this blog for a spell now. The project has had its difficulties, primarily technical surprises, but as of this morning June 23rd, 2020 – I predict that most of those have been overcome and the largest problem with Ham radio operators using it on […]
One of the most severe limits on Raspian/Raspberry Pi OS was having to boot the Raspberry pi computer from a (relatively slow) Micro SD card. One of the “work-arounds” has been to use something like “Bootberry 2.0” on the SD Card and through it, install multiple operating systems on a Solid State Drive (SSD) connected via USB. On June 15th, […]
I have decided to upgrade the Raspberry Pi dedicated to our Ham Shack to the newly released RPi4 8gb. In doing so, after installing the latest release of Raspberry Pi OS, I will be flashing the firmware to the latest beta release in order to enable booting from USB first. Finally, I intend to install a, relatively inexpensive, SSD to […]