@mot Holy heck that's so cool! How does the USB thingy work?
@mot so cool I get an urge to install Windows just to use it
@ivanrancic @mot 🤣plz resist
@mot Pretty cool.
What happens if you flip the switch in the middle of normal operation?
@urusan I guess nothing, as it changes a FAT16 partition on an emulated USB mass storage that is only processed by GRUB in the boot process: https://hackaday.io/project/179539-hardware-boot-selection-switch
@mot Aw dang, that's neat!
Literally less than a month ago I was struggling with setting up a dual boot, and considered building something like this for myself.
@mot is there a kickstarter for this device?
@mot Could this also work to directly switch the cabled connection between one hard drive and another?
@matt You'd be introducing the possibility of accidentally yanking out your system drive while you're using it, possibly during boot. Seems dangerous.
@mot oh what a wonderful simple piece of hardware! soontaneous upgrade idea: OS-specific boot sound starting to play as soon as the machine gets powered on...
@mot That's wonderfully cool and it's cute! 🤩
🎷📷
@mot
Wtf nice!
@mot awesome
@mot useless! But ... so nice ❤️
@mot Obvs the correct labels should be SUCK and BLOW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7aeWQCF1jM
@mot This is really cool! I tried to get more into emulating a virtual file system with an Arduino (or related, like STM32), but I find that so much effort (like you described in the log). Well done!
@mot
I think the community would really benefit from being able to communicate with embedded devices via virtual files.
@mot That is so cool! Could a dial work, for more options?
@mot Good idea ! 👍
@mot Could you make a small tuto out of it ? If it's only this config bit and card to buy, I kinda want to give this to friends and myself :o
@mot More positions needed for multiple distros ;)
@mot Now use one of those cool hex switches and it could be used for recovery images and such!
@mot Oooh this is nifty!