What a month:

• Had fun reading Bluetooth specs and finished the prototype of my rowing monitor which exposes data from my water rower (distance, stroke rate, watts, ...) to my watch or interconnected indoor rowing apps like EXR
• CLT2024 was great - most of the talks can be found online
• Switched my …

The OnOff SHIM by Pimoroni is a convenient power switch for the Raspberry Pi. The official guide suggests to install a daemon to initiate a clean shutdown once the button is pressed. However, there is much simpler solution using device tree overlays avoiding additional 3rd party tools.

The Raspberry Pi features a built-in hardware watchdog timer that automatically resets the system if it becomes unresponsive or freezes. This can be handy when used as an audio player like Volumio - especially if the hardware is not easy to access.

Initially, this blog was intended to serve as a developer's notebook. However, over the past 10 years, many of the articles I wrote about various technologies have become obsolete or outdated, leading me to unpublish them.

Despite this, I enjoyed skimming through the Git commit history and I decided to …