Projects'n'stuff

Guess what, this is NOT the same as a GoPro Hero 3+. I've just spent far too long trying to work out why this wasn't working and figured I'd document my findings here to hopefully save others (and possibly future me) hassle. To reset the Wifi name and password on a hero 3+ silver you need to put the following files on the SD card. UPDATE\settings.in UPDATE\update.10.txt It seems this is exactly the same as the standard gopro hero 3+ files apart from the second file is called update.10.txt and not update.11.txt. The contents of the files are as follows: settings.in { "current_password":"", "token":"", "wifi_ap":{ "ssid":"WIFINAME", "password":"WIFIPASS" }, "wifi_networks":[] } update.10.txt # Camera upgrade rules file OPTIONS:6

My car has battery has been running low/flat since I've not been using it regularly during lockdown so I figured it was time to grab a car jump starting battery pack to help me get it started.

I recently realised that HDMI capture devices had got cheap. Until recently you would expect to pay around £80 for one, but then some adverts for sub £20 ones started appearing (sub £10 if you're happy to wait for shipping from China). "USB 3" HDMI capture device I found a cheap USB 3 one that claimed to capture 1080p@60 and a USB2 one that was very similar but only managed 1080p@30. I don't particularly have a use for one but figured for such a cheap price it might be handy to have one kicking around my box of bits. USB 2 HDMI capture device After a brief amount of googling I discovered the "USB 3" device was actually made by a company called WiiStar . The chipset used is Macrosilicon as displayed by running lsusb under linux. dmesg output when attached to linux What modes does it support ? Thanks to the linux command v4l2-ctl we can ask it. Is it really USB 3 ? No, not at all. It's USB 2 with a blue connector. There...