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The Truck's Brain
« on: September 29, 2015, 09:09:18 am »
I figure it's about time I mention what's controlling all of this... I needed a place to put the header pinouts anyway where I could get to them with anything... This takes care of both ;)

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More as it comes...

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Re: The Truck's Brain
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2015, 09:07:27 am »
Needed to update/back this up...

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All of the GPIO are actually now spoken for, they just haven't been marked reserved yet.

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Re: The Truck's Brain
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2015, 01:21:53 pm »
I've held off on posting these until the system matured for the most part.. There's a few more things to add, but this is how the pinout above physically manifests...

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One of the more notable things to mention about all this is if you notice, there's no fan anywhere. Considering I lost count some time back of the number of fans scattered throughout everywhere else (it's somewhere around 30), I thought it kinda strange that the computer running the show doesn't need active cooling of any sort, runs @ ~ 100% load averages, and the CPU, et al, run only lukewarm to the touch, and no heatsinks.

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A little counterintuitive looking at the history of computers, ain't it? Haha But all is well!

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Re: The Truck's Brain
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2015, 08:29:07 am »
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Another update to the header pinout... Getting there :)

The last 2 pins are up for grabs/debate... Only one is part of a header connector, the other (GPIO 8, pin 24) is sitting in a single pin gap between connectors... probably won't bother (wouldn't be a bad idea to keep a spare handy anyway). It's not that I'm itching to fill them, but a couple of things are competing for the win... Hard call right at this moment.

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