raspberrypi

3273 readers

2 users here now

Community about the single-board computers, micro-controllers and related projects.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/

Other RaspberryPi communities on Lemmy

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

testman@lemmy.ml

CM4 mount vibration experience. (self.raspberrypi)

submitted 8 months ago by HumanPenguin to c/raspberrypi@lemmy.ml

11 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hi. I am looking at using a cm4 and Waveshare mini io board. For a project I am setting up on my small narrowboat.

As the tiny antique single cylinder diesel engine. Means the boat suffers from a fair bit of vibration. And this will be the first time I have used a CM4.

I was hoping some folks could share there experiance/advice on using CM4 boards in similar rough environments.

I am planning to build a system mounted to din rails with rubber pads to absorb some of the vibration. But any other experience other have can only help.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Removing the GPIO pins will be non-trivial. You have to use a screwdriver/pliers to pull the plastic bit off first, and then desolder each pin. Ive done it, but its very fiddly, and if your not careful, you can cook the board and lift pads. Go slow and careful.

What is your plan for software?

[–] HumanPenguin 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm a retired software engineer so plan to write python scripts. running on rasbian.

As I say. I think I'll get a friend to do the soldering. Smt is a little hard vision wise.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a cool project, good luck! Are you going to be publishing updates somewhere as you go? I would be very interested in following along.

[–] HumanPenguin 2 points 8 months ago

Maybe once I have a working example. I planned to take pics of the tank testing. As I have some ideas to use stratification to make things a little more effective when solar is limited.

So will be testing that in my kitchen.