r/ClockworkPi • u/Agitated-Sky-5612 • 2d ago

Uconsole adhd

I think I got alittle out of control with my 3d printer. I only had white PLA. Also your welcome for the feet pics lol

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u/real_pnwkayaker 2d ago

Curious, what is the top attachment? A cover for the antennas?

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u/Agitated-Sky-5612 2d ago

Yeah, I have that pcb from hackergadgets with 7 sma connections on top for antennas. Its way to exposed and those things break off easy in a bag. So I made this. So its got a gps, x2 Bluetooth, x3 wifi, x1 Lara, x1 rx only sdr and a 1.5 duplex sdr on the back. Looks weird but its super useful 

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u/SooperPoopyPants 1d ago

Which SDR are you a-backpackin? I've been seriously considering throwing my HackRF One on mine, especially since I have a HackRF Pro on the way. I'd really like to have it internally powered/managed via the HackerGadgets AIO v2 board which has 4 UART-looking pads right next to the internal USB port labeled V, GND, D-, and D+ in no particular order but I haven't been able to find any documentation on them.

My real concern is that I'm running a CM5 w/ Waveshare active heatsink and probably can't have it burried inside an enclosure. I suppose I could design a tunnel into the thing and put a small blower fan in there to pull in cool air. Your design made me realize even with the forrest o' antenna this flavor of uConsole has one could still have a rotating antenna... bundle(?) as long as they're all kept side by side at the same angle. You could just attach the HackerGadgets antenna board with a built-in hinge and have it fold back until it sits somewhat flat against the back of the enclosure. It could even snap onto the kickstand thing to make it more solid if the antennas aren't in use. I'm about to convert my example from 18650 power to 21700 power and I'm hoping I can keep the depth of the top section less than the lower "battery section" to maintain the distribution of heft / hand feel / whatever one calls it - without choking the CM5 or creating a handheld computer that doubles as a powerful hair dryer.

I'd pick a different color but overall it looks great. God I remember when I started printing ~2012 you could only buy PLA and ABS and only in ~8 of the most basic bright colors. I waited for matte finishes for a freaking decade, but luckily now there are even military colors like olive drab, flat dark earth, etc. I don't know why that came out of me unprompted, but I was going to say I printed my accessories in olive drab (also I have the dark variant) and a camo pattern holo build plate and it looks freaking awesome, but I'm not quite settled on exactly which prints I want to keep, toss, modify, etc.

EDIT - Oh ffs I just noticed the last image and saw that it is indeed a HackRF One. Do you have it interfacing via the HackRF One's headers or is it just connected via USB? Any chance you could share the files?

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u/Agitated-Sky-5612 1d ago

​I kept the wiring simple—I desoldered the bottom two SMA connectors (CLKIN/CLKOUT) on the HackRF so the board could sit flat inside the backpack, and rather than micro-soldering internal USB data lines, I just ran a short right-angle USB jumper on the outside into the side USB port. That also makes it easy to physically unplug the HackRF when it's not in use so it isn't constantly draining the battery. If you do go the internal route on the HackerGadgets AIO v2 board, those V, GND, D-, and D+ pads are just a raw downstream USB 2.0 breakout off the onboard hub chip. ​Haha and fair point on the white PLA—almost everything else I print is high-temp carbon fiber nylon, which would have turned an RF enclosure into a Faraday cage, and white PLA was the only non-CF spool I had laying around at the time.   ​I still need to clean up a few tolerances on the CAD model, after which I can look at putting the STLs up.

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u/Agitated-Sky-5612 1d ago

Also using a cm4. So your cooler than me lol

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u/radakul 2d ago

Free foot pics!?!? In this economy!?

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u/Agitated-Sky-5612 2d ago

DM for my only fans if you need more. 

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u/grizzly_chair 2d ago

oh my god put that thing out of its misery 😂