IronOS VS smbusb

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IronOS smbusb
87 5
6,759 127
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9.0 0.0
7 days ago almost 3 years ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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IronOS

Posts with mentions or reviews of IronOS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-30.
  • Accessing the Pinecil UART with Picoprobe
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jan 2024
    So apparently the Pinecil is a BLE-enabled soldering iron with a 108 MHz RISC-V processor running a custom real-time operating system [0]. The author wanted to access the UART logs, so they repurposed a Raspberry Pi Pico (a dual-core microcontroller system running a real-time OS) for the task.

    That's a staggering amount of hardware, sortware and computing power devoted to decoding one of the simplest and oldest serial protocols from a device whose sole purpose is to essentially melt tin. Maybe I'm out of touch, but I think I'll stick to my thermostat-controlled Weller soldering station and FTDI UART converters. I apologize if this post comes across as snarky, my point is that these are solved problems and have been for half a century.

    [0] https://github.com/Ralim/IronOS

  • IronOS: Open-source soldering iron firmware
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2023
  • How to Get Started in Soldering for Beginners
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Apr 2023
    I'm very happy with the Pinecil. The $25 price is very reasonable for a reliable soldering iron that is open source hardware[1] and runs on free and open source firmware.[2]

    [1] Schematics: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinecil:_How_to_Repair#Schemati...

    [2] IronOS: https://github.com/Ralim/IronOS

    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Apr 2023
    Look if I can't flash my own IronOS firmware unto my USB-C powered TS100 iron what is even the point? What am I, a farmer?

    https://github.com/Ralim/IronOS

    I didn't spend hours watching YouTube reviews comparing soldering irons for nothing. This is $70 well spent.

    In case anybody thinks I am being sarcastic, I am actually not. Look into it, worth it.

  • Does pine64 have a way to donate?
    2 projects | /r/PINE64official | 17 Mar 2023
    Link at the top of Ralim's IronOS page for example here with "Sponsor" https://github.com/Ralim/IronOS
  • IronOS — open-source firmware for soldering irons
    3 projects | /r/soldering | 17 Feb 2023
    Ahh, you are Violavon :) I thought they had given up totally when they closed the github issue for adding TS101 support. Ralim just said he won't do any more work on it unless Minware works with him on it. So If Minware gives Ralim the boot source and pinouts for TS101 it will be worked on. https://github.com/Ralim/IronOS/issues/1420
    3 projects | /r/soldering | 17 Feb 2023
    On the main page at https://github.com/Ralim/IronOS it says TS100 is no longer recommended because of Minware using cloned chips. And Ralim has officially given up on ever supporting IronOS on the TS101 because Minware won't give him any pinouts or documentation on the unit.
    3 projects | /r/soldering | 17 Feb 2023
  • PinecilV2 is orderable.
    2 projects | /r/PINE64official | 15 Sep 2022
    The opposite of your question (where to find genuine Pine64 products) is answered at: https://github.com/Ralim/IronOS/discussions/1257
    2 projects | /r/PINE64official | 15 Sep 2022
    TS100 is no longer recommended by Ralim, see Github Ralim's IronOS. see Readme here https://github.com/Ralim/IronOS a lot of new TS100 and TS80 now have issues loading IronOS and people are stuck with miniware firmware. I would avoid.

smbusb

Posts with mentions or reviews of smbusb. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing IronOS and smbusb you can also consider the following projects:

stm32-bootloader - Customizable Bootloader for STM32 microcontrollers. This example demonstrates how to perform in-application-programming of a firmware located on an external SD card with FAT32 file system.

gd32vf103-pinecil-demo-rs - Trying embedded Rust on the Pinecil GD32VF103 RISC-V device.

Otter-Iron - A TS100 USB-PD replacement PCB.

stm32_soldering_iron_controller - Custom firmware for Quicko and KSGER T12 soldering stations

spiffs - Wear-leveled SPI flash file system for embedded devices

nitrokey-pro-firmware - Firmware for the Nitrokey Pro device

iron-snapraid - Secure docker image for running snapraid.

lbry-desktop - A browser and wallet for LBRY, the decentralized, user-controlled content marketplace.

wethr - 🌤️ Command line weather tool.

HeadsetControl - Sidetone and Battery status for Logitech G930, G533, G633, G933 SteelSeries Arctis 7/PRO 2019 and Corsair VOID (Pro) in Linux and MacOSX

serv - SERV - The SErial RISC-V CPU