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awesome find! 
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Most all fast food should be fully automated by now as well. I'm not sure what's taking McDonald's so long to do it.
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Probably because minimum-wage people are still cheaper than the capital cost + maintenance of the robot.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I recently purchased a Pi-Zero kit that included a bare 16GB SanDisk microSD card. When I went to use it, it only reported 30MB. I've tried "refreshing" it by using dd to write over the disk from /dev/zero, and using a Windows based SD format tool from Tuxera. So far no joy. Does anyone have any suggestions what to try to revive the card, or is it just dead?
Keep Calm and Carry On
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It has desiccated with age, so bathe it in water for 15 minutes.
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Your SD card is probably fine and this is more a formatting issue or getting the PI to read it properly.
Unfortunately, the only experience I have with a PI was setting up "Retro PI" and that was 4 years ago. That software has a specific feature you must do in order to get it to address the whole SD card. The setting was:
Raspi-Config > 7. Advances Options > A1 Expand File System
Obviously, that isn't going to be much help if you aren't using Retro PI. But I can only assume there must be a similar feature/step required in whatever OS you are using on it.
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No, not a problem with the filesystem. The SD itself reports that its only 30.61 MB:
[root@localhost ~]
Disk /dev/sdd: 30.61 MiB, 32096256 bytes, 62688 sectors
Disk model: Storage Device
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
[root@localhost ~] The drive is clearly marked as a 16GB drive.
I'm guessing its probably just a bad chip that managed to get through quality control --- assuming they test every unit. But maybe someone knows something that might get the card to find its missing capacity. But then, should one trust it? Probably not...
Keep Calm and Carry On
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It does sound like a production issue. Given the low cost of 16GB SD cards, I see two options:
- Write to SanDisk (now Western Digital) customer support, and see if they'll give you a replacement
- Bin it and buy new
Even if there is a way to recover the full capacity, I wouldn't trust it.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Are you sure it's a genuine SanDisk card? Was the seller reputable and unlikely also to have been naive enough to buy from a dodgy supplier?
You can definitely still buy micro SDs in the megabyte range. I got some the other month for around a dollar each for a uController project.
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It was Canakit. I expect that they would be on the level. Though the card did come in a small antistatic bag, rather than on a SanDisk bubble-pack card. So maybe they purchased a bulk lot, with the odd one being bad, or mislabeled. Who knows? It doesn't really seem worth pursuing, its only a 16GB card, and I have several 32G cards available to me. For ~$7, its probably more than that in postage. At my hourly rate, I've probably spent more than that wingeing about it here ... 
Keep Calm and Carry On
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k5054 wrote: At my hourly rate, I've probably spent more than that wingeing about it here ...
I've often joked that I'm well within my rights to spend a week making a program that'll save me a few minutes each time I do a task.
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At this point I would write to your supplier to notify them of the problem and use another card - they're cheap and ubiquitous.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Most likely, the SD card has the Linux OS on it already (Raspian), which means that the SD card is probably ok. Boot up on the SD card and log in. The user name should be pi and the password is raspberry. Once at the command prompt, type in sudo raspiconfig. Once there, go to the advanced options. There should be an option to expand the drive. It will utilize the rest of the 16gb space.
This is common with the Raspberry Pi, especially with the Cana Kit.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Is the human that opens the cat food tin a purrson?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Merely a dispenser.
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
JaxCoder.com
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A subordinate claws?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The human is to err, as the cat is too purr-fection
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I almost have my TTF rendering working but I've been banging my head against the wall because of this:
[Rendering of a "B"^]
Forgive the flat edges. I'm foregoing the "curving" process in order to debug.
I don't know what polygon fill algorithm I'm supposed to be using but apparently even/odd w/ winding isn't working, and that's by far the most common, including (i believe) the one .NET uses for drawing.
I am terrible at sifting through documentation. I'm a bit better at sifting through code to a point.
This project might be derailed entirely and that's super frustrating because I put a ton of work into it already and the problem visually is somewhat minor compared to the scope of the problem. It also only happens on certain letters (I think ones with multiple "holes")
I don't deal with failure well, which sometimes serves me because it helps me commit to succeeding, but it's hard to know when to throw in the towel.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I once played with FreeType, it has a rendering library in code (to learn from) - no documentation
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I know, I've been tinkering with freetype myself trying to integrate it because that was my plan A.
However, the way they coded it, integration into Arduino projects is - while not impossible - really a pain because you have to compile a static lib for each different platform you plan to target.
All that because you can't build from source by including it in a larger project, and no tools (PlatformIO/Arduino IDE) support building a project as two separate projects and then linking them together. =(
I am trying to understand how freetype renders but the code is a zoo.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: but the code is a zoo
To many people worked on it over time - however my part is crystal clear
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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