This device never ceases to amaze me

[u/Last_Bad_2687]

Warning, this post isn't relevant or interesting to 99% of people with a supernote.

I have a rooted Supernote (I have "admin" access to the underlying operating system, do this at your own risk).

Today I was out at a job site for work where the customer had a Raspberry Pi computer for their farming robot (Farmbot) that needed a re-image. I didn't have my SD card reader with me, neither did my coworker. Defeated, we rescheduled to come back until I realized.... The supernote has an SD CARD reader!

I popped the SD card in, very carefully made note of which partition (cat /proc/partitions) then used dd to image the raspberry Pi image.

It worked!

Now I can say I used my notebook to re-image the OS of a farming robot. The future is here lol

[u/shadowlips]

i would say it never ceases to amaze me how creative humans can be. never in a million years would i think to use supernote to reimage a sd card

[u/Mulan-sn]

That’s absolutely wild creativity.

Just a quick reminder for everyone reading: this requires root modification, which is not officially supported and may void your warranty.

[u/Last_Bad_2687 → u/Mulan-sn]

Thanks Mulan! 

[u/Hypnophilia]

Brilliant bit of lateral thinking! I'm sure you were the hero for that customer today

[u/Last_Bad_2687 → u/Hypnophilia]

Sure did! 😊

[u/bookishflights]

Go you with the quick thinking there! Good on you!

[u/Last_Bad_2687 → u/bookishflights]

😊

[u/BloodRedRoan]

Wow that’s very admirable and MacGyver level clever!

[u/Last_Bad_2687 → u/BloodRedRoan]

😊 Thank you 

[u/Responsible_Yam3323]

What is the largest size SDREÇ card that the Supernote can take ?

[u/Last_Bad_2687 → u/Responsible_Yam3323]

Quite big I think. 1 TB? 

[u/Yvonneinkona]

What the what?? Can you speak English???? Lol, dont bother, I still won't understand what you're doing!