Selected work

Infrastructure

Read the public, sanitized systems and recovery work behind this site.

Alpine Builder

Build Alpine images for FriendlyElec and NanoPi boards.

Hanzi Matrix

Explore traditional Hanzi with pinyin, zhuyin, and English.

Recent

From silent UART to a working NanoPi R2S

An evidence-led NanoPi R2S investigation: isolate an unreliable UART path, identify a wrong Rockchip image, boot Alpine Linux, and map the RK3328 SD-card chain.

making

Twelve volts, one wrong pin

I tried to bring an old HiSilicon camera board back to life. The plan was cautious at first: identify the H1102NL Ethernet magnetics, verify the USB-TTL adapter with a loopback, keep its…

making
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