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Jeff Geerling

@jeffgeerling.com

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Father, author, developer, maker. Sometimes called "an inflammatory enigma". #stl #ansible #k8s #raspberrypi #mac #crohns www.jeffgeerling.com

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 15h

And no, I was not paid to say any of this—but yes, a couple years ago I took home a very early version of the Ubo Pod for testing! It's not simple/refined like an Echo or HomePod but that's part of its charm :D

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 15h

It's kickstarter, so of course YMMV, but if it ships, it's a great deal on a little Pi box you could build on top of, along with some useful built-in sensors and software... all open source (hardware and software), of course!

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 15h

At Open Sauce 2024, I met Ubo Pod's creator and had good conversations about the little 'home Pi smarthome box'. He refined it and upgraded to a Pi 5 so it can do small local LLMs for voice stuff - and he's just launching a Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ubo...

Ubo Pod: Your personal <\ai> dev kit

Raspberry Pi 4 & 5 | Fully Open Source | Vision and Voice AI | Multi-modal UX | Cloud and Local AI & LLMs | gRPC API

www.kickstarter.com

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 16h

For that you'd want to read through the NASA LEO document I linked in the blog post: ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation... the short answer is "it depends" :D

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 17h

How much radiation can a Raspberry Pi handle in space? I asked Ian Charnas, the chief engineer for Mark Rober's Crunchlabs, and he shared a ton of great data on testing the CM4 while prepping for their SatGus cubesat launch!

Read more: www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/ho...

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 1d

I haven't seen anything posted yet, and the Uno Q forum is pretty empty so far

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 1d

It also looks like they've triggered a build, but it's stuck in GitHub Actions limbo! github.com/arduino/ardu...

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 1d

I ordered an Uno Q, hopefully it comes by the end of the month so I can see how it runs! Especially want to test power draw and efficiency on the Dragonwing.

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 1d

I could be missing something, so if you find anything else about their Debian build process let me know!

I'm just hoping they don't hack the ISO together this month, get it working, then let it grow stale. I've been burned by too many Arm SBC vendors before...

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 1d

Until that fork repo is public, I can't really see how 'custom' the Arduino Uno Q Debian Linux image will be.

The more patches they have to maintain, the less likely we'll see many years of full support (much less a continuously up-to-date kernel, like Pi supplies).

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 1d

The build script default is upstream Linux (see: github.com/arduino/ardu...), but it's overridden. So, like Pi and other Arm SBC makers, their Linux ISO will likely be built from a fork.

Hopefully that fork will be open source, too, and they just haven't made it public yet.

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 1d

Glancing in Arduino's GitHub repo for their new Debian image [presumably] for the Q (using Qualcomm's Dragonwing SoC), I found it is building off a Linux kernel fork github.com/bcmi-labs/li... which is currently private.

See: github.com/arduino/ardu...

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 1d

Valid option in this day and age!

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 1d

Qualcomm is acquiring Arduino, and they're launching a new SBC (Uno Q) combining a Dragonwing SoC with an Arduino microcontroller in the Uno form factor. What implications does this have for makers and education? Quick video covering the news: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfKX...

Qualcomm just bought Arduino, and they're making a tiny computer

YouTube video by Jeff Geerling

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 2d

I wonder if Microsoft secretly wants everyone to switch to Linux. There are certainly fewer reasons to stick to Windows every day: www.theverge.com/news/793579/...

Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account

Microsoft is disabling the best local account workarounds

www.theverge.com

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 2d

haha took me a second to get into #dadjoke mode

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 2d

Thank you SO much to all who donated to the UOAA this weekend, we almost hit $2,000 between the livestream and the 5K! Those dollars will help the lives of so many ostomates, and provide resources for nurses. Also loved seeing so many others in the ostomy community celebrate #WorldOstomyDay!

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 2d

AI companies are pumping that financial bubble to new heights in creative ways.

www.reuters.com/business/amd...

AMD signs AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI, gives it option to take a 10% stake

AMD said on Monday it will supply artificial intelligence chips to OpenAI in a multi-year deal that would bring in tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue and give the ChatGPT creator the option to buy up to roughly 10% of the chipmaker.

www.reuters.com

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 4d

How many graphics cards did we get running on the Pi today? 5, across AMD and Intel! I just added chapter markers, so feel free to skip around and catch the highlights: www.youtube.com/live/Q3bY0qH...

(HUGE thanks to everyone who donated to the UOAA—nearly $1,000 so far!)

Can we get Intel Arc GPUs working on a Pi before Nvidia kills them?

YouTube video by Jeff Geerling

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 4d

It's serendipity that today is also #WorldOstomyDay! Regardless of your support, hope to see you on the livestream, and please give #VisibleSupport to your friends who suffer from these #InvisibleDisabilities!

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 4d

So my livestream today is a fundraiser, to help the organization that helps me and approximately 1,000,000 others in the US living with an ostomy. You probably know one!

You can also donate through my 'Run for Resilience' page here: runsignup.com/jeff-geerling

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 4d

But below is a snapshot from a 5K I ran with my two oldest kids this morning—three years after my last surgery, almost all signs of Crohn's are in remission.

My ostomy gave me new life. And one organization (and individuals within) helped me so much: the @uoaa-ostomy.bsky.social

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 4d

Most people don't know this, but I'm an 'ostomate'. I had a total proctocolectomy about 6 years ago that required a major follow-up surgery as well, all stemming from my severe Crohn's disease (it was flaring BAD!). Back then I was feeling terrible, always tired, but hid it...

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 4d

Finishing prep for today's livestream at 2pm US Central (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3bY...) — MASSIVE progress getting pretty much all modern GPUs working with the Raspberry Pi. And the work can help other Arm boards too... maybe even Intel? But there's another reason for the stream 🧵

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 5d

Heh, that's why this year I'm ditching about 12 of the domains I never put to use but I've had for 10 years!