Fedorator: A Raspberry Pi-based Open HW box that puts Fedora onto USB sticks

[Miro Hrončok]

Hi all.

Since the Fedora DVD are dying, Sanqui (a student of mine) designed an 
Open Hardware device that can attract visitors of a Fedora booth on 
various conferences and can copy a selected image with Fedora onto an 
inserted USB stick.

The prototype with build instructions is available on GitHub [1],
more photos are in my tweet [2].

We also have a physical device and will test it "in production" on PyCon 
CZ (8‑10 June).

It has been designed to be cheap, hackable and easy to assembly. You 
should be able to build it quite well already, but a more robust version 
of the case is being developed.

If interested, feel free to reply on-list, submit an issue on GitHub or 
ping Sanqui directly on #fedora, #fedora-devel or #fedora-python.

[1] https://github.com/sanqui/fedorator
[2] https://twitter.com/hroncok/status/864230957414567936

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[Nemanja Milosevic]

This is awesome, thank you both! Zoltan from Hungary had some ideas for a similar device
so it is probably a good idea to ping him. :)

For an even simpler device, is it possible to use just a normal screen and keyboard mouse
combo with this?

Cheers,
Nemanja

[Zoltan Hoppar]

I have ordered a bunch of chinese stuff, and sadly I need to reorder my
screen as it has electrically faulty parts... but yeah... almost what I
have planned. Except, that I also purchased a multi SD-MMC-etc USB hub so I
can give away ARM images too. Further addon is the stand with multiport
charger, so we can stop people till they charge up.
Otherwise nice work, lets hope this Fedorator will spread like bushfire.

Ps: I suggest to create a maker community subpage called "Fedora
Blueprints" where we can provide build recipes, apps - and parts list, 3d
print stuffs - 3d printer files, so we can tell to our community to what
can we do with Fedora.

Z

PS: My music machine project is progress, still waiting for the plexiglas
parts.



2017-05-16 14:30 GMT+02:00 Nemanja Milosevic <nmilosev(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;:

>  This is awesome, thank you both! Zoltan from Hungary had some ideas
> for a
>  similar device so it is probably a good idea to ping him. :)
>
>  For an even simpler device, is it possible to use just a normal screen and
>  keyboard mouse combo with this?
>
>  Cheers,
>  Nemanja
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[IFo Hancroft]

Hey!

This is amazing.
I may make one for use at home and bring it with me to events.

Is protection against usb killers planned?

Best Regards,
IFo Hancroft

On 05/16/2017 03:18 PM, Miro Hrončok wrote:
>  Hi all.
>
>  Since the Fedora DVD are dying, Sanqui (a student of mine) designed an
>  Open Hardware device that can attract visitors of a Fedora booth on
>  various conferences and can copy a selected image with Fedora onto an
>  inserted USB stick.
>
>  The prototype with build instructions is available on GitHub [1],
>  more photos are in my tweet [2].
>
>  We also have a physical device and will test it "in production" on
>  PyCon CZ (8‑10 June).
>
>  It has been designed to be cheap, hackable and easy to assembly. You
>  should be able to build it quite well already, but a more robust
>  version of the case is being developed.
>
>  If interested, feel free to reply on-list, submit an issue on GitHub
>  or ping Sanqui directly on #fedora, #fedora-devel or #fedora-python.
>
>  [1] https://github.com/sanqui/fedorator
>  [2] https://twitter.com/hroncok/status/864230957414567936
>

[Miro Hrončok]

On 16.5.2017 14:33, IFo Hancroft wrote:
>  Hey!
>  
>  This is amazing.
>  I may make one for use at home and bring it with me to events.
>  
>  Is protection against usb killers planned? 
Not that I know of, but embedding protectors withing is possible.

>  
>  Best Regards,
>  IFo Hancroft
>  
>  On 05/16/2017 03:18 PM, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > Since the Fedora DVD are dying, Sanqui (a student of mine) designed an
> > Open Hardware device that can attract visitors of a Fedora booth on
> > various conferences and can copy a selected image with Fedora onto an
> > inserted USB stick.
> >
> > The prototype with build instructions is available on GitHub [1],
> > more photos are in my tweet [2].
> >
> > We also have a physical device and will test it "in production" on
> > PyCon CZ (8‑10 June).
> >
> > It has been designed to be cheap, hackable and easy to assembly. You
> > should be able to build it quite well already, but a more robust
> > version of the case is being developed.
> >
> > If interested, feel free to reply on-list, submit an issue on GitHub
> > or ping Sanqui directly on #fedora, #fedora-devel or #fedora-python.
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/sanqui/fedorator
> > [2] https://twitter.com/hroncok/status/864230957414567936
> >
>  
>  
>  
>  
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[Athos Ribeiro]

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 02:18:26PM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
>  Hi all.
>  
>  Since the Fedora DVD are dying, Sanqui (a student of mine) designed an Open
>  Hardware device that can attract visitors of a Fedora booth on various
>  conferences and can copy a selected image with Fedora onto an inserted USB
>  stick.
>  
>  It has been designed to be cheap, hackable and easy to assembly. You should
>  be able to build it quite well already, but a more robust version of the
>  case is being developed.
>   
This is awesome!!! Please, share pics/videos from the conference with
us so we can see the prototype in action! :)

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[Justin W. Flory]

On 05/16/2017 03:05 PM, Athos Ribeiro wrote:
>  On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 02:18:26PM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > Since the Fedora DVD are dying, Sanqui (a student of mine) designed an Open
> > Hardware device that can attract visitors of a Fedora booth on various
> > conferences and can copy a selected image with Fedora onto an inserted USB
> > stick.
> >
> > It has been designed to be cheap, hackable and easy to assembly. You should
> > be able to build it quite well already, but a more robust version of the
> > case is being developed.
> >
>  
>  This is awesome!!! Please, share pics/videos from the conference with
>  us so we can see the prototype in action! :)
>   
Just a +1 here, after the test run at PyCon CZ, an article or blog post
detailing how to build one of these and set it up could be a very
effective tool to help transition away from DVD media in a stylish and
affordable way. :)

I know this would be a super cool thing to see on the Magazine when it's
a little more stable!

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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com

[Emmanuel Seyman]

* Miro Hrončok [16/05/2017 14:18] :
>  The prototype with build instructions is available on GitHub [1], 
I pinged my local FabLab with this and they replied back saying they
will start printing this on Thursday morning so that we can have it for
the Fedora 26 Release Party planned there early July.

Emmanuel