RC Robot-Car with Orange Pi Zero 2W

RC Robot-Car with Orange Pi Zero 2W

After setting up the Orange Pi Zero 2W with Gentoo, it is time to test how it stands up against the idea of an RC car....
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Chasing a network error

Chasing a network error

These things happen sometimes in production.
The log shows an error connecting to a certain IP address, which is not found in the source tree.
It is a typical node.js project that has too many dependencies to make sense of.
So, how to find the piece referring to the error?...
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Installing Gentoo on Orange Pi Zero 2W

Installing Gentoo on Orange Pi Zero 2W

Orange Pi Zero 2W - purchased.
Armbian - easy.
Gentoo, let’s go....
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Configuring Cloudflare and Nginx

Configuring Cloudflare and Nginx

These are the two common optimizations for Nginx configuration when combined with Cloudflare. First is to resolve the client IP address from the HTTP header of the proxied request and the second - to block all clients trying to access the webpage by skipping Cloudflare.
Combining the two is tricky, however....
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Crossdev build environment for Raspberry Pi Pico on Gentoo

Crossdev build environment for Raspberry Pi Pico on Gentoo

The Gentoo wiki page on Crossdev is lacking some essential details for me, and after naturally emerge-ing the package, then trying to create the repository it would always error with hardly documented information....
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