Lessons Learned After Finally Configuring a Raspberry Pi CM4 Mini Router (Bought in 2022) Product Mini Router built with Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Dual Gigabit Ethernet NICs 4GB RAM / 32GB eMMC Pre-installed OpenWrt Compact form factor, fanless, low power Background: A Device That Waited Its Turn I bought this device back in 2022 . At the time, it looked like the perfect small router: Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Dual Ethernet ports OpenWrt already installed No SD card required thanks to eMMC But like many homelab projects, it ended up sitting on a shelf . Fast forward to today — with more networking experience, a clearer home network plan, and a real need for a flexible router — I finally decided to configure it properly. That’s when the real journey started. What I Expected (Even in 2025) Even knowing this wasn’t a consumer router, I still expected: Plug WAN into my upstream router Plug LAN into my laptop Access 192.168.1.1 Hav...
This 2014 and 2015 has been two years I have been involved direct and indirect with the Google Open Source Program. In 2014 I was selected as a student of the GSOC 2014 for the BeagleBoard.org . This 2015, I helped organizing one GSOC Meetup at local University. I'm quite happy of organizing this meetup, because a student was selected. Raul Lopez is the second consecutive Honduran student in being part of this program. I was also a co-mentor for the BeagleBoard.org and continue helping on the development of Bone101.This was a great experience seeing how it works the other part of the story. Besides this, I was organizing the VII Central America Open Source Summit . The Google Open Source Program helped us sponsoring this great event. If you want to read more about this: http://diegoturcios.blogspot.com/2015/12/vii-central-america-free-software-summit.html And finally I'm working right now in the GCI program with Ubuntu . These are the reasons, wh...