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I’m going to use my uConsole as the remote controller for my raspberry pi based robot I’m currently building. I’m currently developing a web based control UI for it, my uConsole will act as a client and sending command to the robot through this WebUI, also display the live stream of all the sensor data and camera feed coming back from the robot.
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Wow that’s interesting - which Pi OS did you go with … I understand out in the wild there is a real time linux…
Webpages to controls is the stuff - please post some project photos and screen grabs…I still struggle with the Arduino/Raspberry Pi divide… I typically go with ESP32 type builds because they work well with IC2 devices and I understand the Arduino development environment a little better than the Python one (all though I use Node Red)
I once tried EMACS, but I’m a JetBrains guy 
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Pycharm does have it’s charm 
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“real time” Linux exists, and it optimizes around latency more then a normal desktop Linux build, but it’s not as deterministic as something like QNX or VxWorks… I wouldn’t bother for anything real
Since the uConsole boots off of an SD card, and since SD cards are 1. cheap and 2. easy to install I’m considering installing Kali Linux as I’m about to start studying for my CompTIA Security+ (re-taking my Network+ tomorrow, wish me luck!) as I’m sure the tools Kali comes with will be helpful for understanding what I study. And, if I don’t want to use it as a daily driver, I can buy a second SD card and install regular Raspian OS and use that. Swap OS’s as I please.
Both LUKS encrypted of course, as every mobile device should be. That or carrying the SD cards in my wallet.
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This is my current setup: I put a raspberry pi 3B on the robot, it’s just using standard raspberry pi OS without GUI. The onboard firmware which control the robot is written with C++ using libpigpiod_if2.so library. The web server is Python FastAPI server(also serving frontend assets) deployed as a docker container on my home Synology NAS server, it communicates with robot firmware through another Redis container running on the NAS using Redis pub/sub channel. My NAS also has a static public IP, so I could eventually control the robot deployed at home anywhere through internet (although facing some security challenge here, so I haven’t really done that). So the plan is using uConsole as the end controller accessing the web page deployed on my NAS.
When everything is hooked up I’ll post more information here, and open source all the code.
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I still need to figure out the live camera feed streaming though
I was studying for the CompTia Data+, but then my team was laid off and I don’t have the money for it.
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Shame, do you have any other CompTIA certs? I luckily passed this morning, so I have my Network+ as well as my A+ I got 3 months ago. Wondering what I’m looking at jobs wise, Indeed says there’s lots of jobs out there for me. I’m going to keep studying to get my Security+ then I’ll start applying for jobs.
Some companies are willing to pay for your certs, so you may want to start looking even before getting your next one.
My company makes budget exceptions for any cert we can show is directly applicable to our positions, and is even giving me time to study on the clock. They paid for my LFCA exam (started studying for that one before i started here), and I’m currently working on my A+ as I never got the actual certification before this.
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Hello! I Just received my uconsole and I wonder if i must begin to learn pico 8 or tic 80, witch one is the easier? There are so much answers on google, but on the small screen of the uconsole, what’s the best?
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You received your uConsole!!! that’s great - it came loaded with ‘base’ operating system? pico 8 - specs: looking at both pico-8 requires at least some command line function to run the games - but I think the games look better than the TIC-80 (Tic-80 looks like early game boy, pic-8 more like a game boy color systems - based on your question - i will probably pick pico-8 since your can build your own games or applications based on it’s engine. But it appears some games are built in - thanks for exposing me to this use of the UConsole (I manly do a little database, some Node-Red programming, and portable open office things - boring!) - also I think the rectangular screen and thumb type input will make this unit more usable than the DevTerm. (okay - after 10 min of exploring pico-8 I’m hooked see you on the forum!
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sorry, it was a joke!.. not so funny because I m waiting as everybody here and it’s haaaaard! btw, thank’s a lot for the info, I will check your link!
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You are such a stinker!!! but you gave me a good tip… on game systems - I’m always looking at new development environments - the code format looks similar to Commodore 64 basic (I"m old school) Keep in mind with multiple MicroSD cards you can have different OS, experimental OS, or different builds … I recommend you keep a file somewhere of your build notes too. I crashed my DevTerm trying to load VNC - I was able to move my files off the SD card then reload from scratch then rebuild the applications following my instructions.
uConsole or DevTem???
Thank you for this infos! Voxatron!, wooooo! Looks amazing! Must not be so easy to make a game but I will go forward to look that!
either unit will run the pico-8 software - I’m waiting to put it on the UConsole because I believe the screen will be a better fit…
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I’m planning to use uConsole as personal Ai assistant, if possible. Using uConsole as dictionary is boring but I’ll be much interesting if it acts like ChatGPT.
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