Hardware

In late March, I bought a Freenove case kit for griffpi — the Raspberry Pi that runs everything. Three PWM fans, four addressable LEDs, a small OLED screen, and an STM32 expansion board that ties it all together over I2C. The case came with a Python script. The script was not good enough. The problem The stock software was a single monolithic script that assumed it was the only thing running on the Pi. It pinned a CPU core polling temperature in a tight loop. It had no configuration file. It could not be controlled remotely. If you wanted to change the fan speed, you edited the script, killed the process, and restarted it. ...

The screen cracked in a way that made the laptop useless as a laptop but perfectly functional as a computer. The M2 chip, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage still worked. Throwing it away or paying for a screen replacement both seemed wrong. So it became a server. The hardware MacBook Pro M2, 2022. The display is physically intact but the LCD panel has internal damage — a spreading dark region that covers about 60% of the screen. Enough to make it unusable for direct interaction. Not enough to trigger a warranty claim (it was out of warranty anyway). ...