Looks like it's going to take quite a bit of surgery to get OpenPNP properly working on this machine. I quickly put together a new LED ring board for one of the new cameras where I can control brightness.
I got my analog FPV receiver/scanner to work on the Raspberry Pi 5, which is kind of amazing considering I considered this hard to fully decode with color even on a strong machine.
So no joke, I am glad I studied electrical engineering originally even though my work experience was mostly in software land. The software industry seems like it'll be indefinitely messed up unless there's some tangential hardware work to what you do.
I put together a Github action/script that automatically extracts the PCB and creates stencil jigs. The print turned out great on the first iteration hah.
I created a quick web-based tool to convert KiCAD position files to a format my pick and place machine understands. Would not have taken the time to do this without some vibe coding though. The tool is simple but doing this is annoying on the machine itself.
I'm liking how this constrained SDR RPi HAT design came together. It'll be able to decode ADS-B, UAT, and do some Meshtastic/LoRa mostly on the FPGA. Kinda amazed it all fit on a small Lattice FPGA.
@luigifcruz It'll be interesting to see how the market reacts if/when a new model that's more efficient than the transformer architecture comes out. I have trouble believing it's the end of the story.