TinyRebooter

An emergency "REISUBer" for your linux systems.

Have you ever gotten, say, a raspberry pi so frozen you can't even get a picture when connecting a monitor? DON'T UNPLUG POWER AND RISK YOUR FANCY SD CARD!!!! Or maybe you need to reboot a container you lost remote access to and are just too lazy to plug in a keyboard? Well, TinyRebooter is here to (maybe, hopefully) save you! The TinyRebooter has one button and one job only: To send the Magic SysRq key command, REISUB, in the hopes of safely rebooting your system even when it is completely unresponsive (Reboot Even If System Utterly Broken). Simply plug the device in, press the button, watch the magic show that it is a flashing LED, wait for it to go solid and off you go! Hopefully a safe reboot is on its way!

The project was developed for a Seeed Studio XIAO SAMD21 and this is the designs of the case. The photos should show how the button was soldered to the board, basically the board and the button just sandwich love a perforated board, cut to size. Yum!

The code for the project can be found on my GitHub Page!

I used fancy m3 inserts to screw the screws (hah!) in. Overkill? Maybe, but I like it. <3

Yes, the button is not centered. Yes, it bothers me too. But you see, I'm also lazy and that's apparently more powerful :)