I Run a Surgical Skills Lab. A Raspberry Pi Storage Problem Led Me to Build Rekonify.

I run a Surgical Skills Lab where we train surgeons on everything from vascular procedures to laparoscopic techniques. It’s intense, detail-oriented work — and recording every training session is a critical part of how we teach. Our setup uses laparoscopic cameras connected to Raspberry Pi boards for recording. Simple, affordable, effective. Until it isn’t. The crash that kept happening Here’s the thing about recording hours of surgical training video onto SD cards: you run out of space. Fast. And when a Raspberry Pi runs out of storage mid-session, it doesn’t politely ask you to free up some room. It crashes. Hard. So there I’d be, pulling the SD card out of the Pi, walking over to my Mac, plugging it in, and… nothing. macOS just stares at you. It can’t read EXT4 — the Linux filesystem that every Raspberry Pi uses by default. The workaround rabbit hole I spent more time than I’d like to admit searching for solutions. Most of what I found was Windows-based. I’d try those tools, and som