Back on the solar compute thing now that I kinda melted #rainpsp …
After spending a lot of time falling into hole after hole trying to shut the SBC down gracefully by monitoring solar power output, I decided to try another approach and make it OK to just “unplug” the computer when it ran out of power (without wrecking the file system, etc.).
I found that the Alpine Linux distro has a slick solution to this (run everything in ram), but it only supports raspberry pi (not the rock64 which I’ve been using).
No problem, just replace it with a raspberry pi right? Wrong, they are out of stock everywhere.
Then I remember I have a model A inside another project. I really didn’t want to pull it out because it’s arguably the best packaging job I’ve ever done for one of these, but…
