Raspberry Pi - Who's gonna have a dabble?
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Just ordered an 8GB Pi5, been using a Pi400 for a couple of years, been great but the temptation of a 5 was too much.
Have ordered a USB 3.1 drive to help with performance and a fan case.
I use it as my main pc, the 400 has been great but it can struggle so will put this in, dug out a mini wireless keyboard so should be fine, keyboard looks like annidebticql layout to the 400 so will do.
Have ordered a USB 3.1 drive to help with performance and a fan case.
I use it as my main pc, the 400 has been great but it can struggle so will put this in, dug out a mini wireless keyboard so should be fine, keyboard looks like annidebticql layout to the 400 so will do.
J4CKO said:
Just ordered an 8GB Pi5, been using a Pi400 for a couple of years, been great but the temptation of a 5 was too much.
Have ordered a USB 3.1 drive to help with performance and a fan case.
I use it as my main pc, the 400 has been great but it can struggle so will put this in, dug out a mini wireless keyboard so should be fine, keyboard looks like annidebticql layout to the 400 so will do.
Nice. My Pi400 is my media machine so no real need to upgrade yet (1080p screen so not 4K). Though Christmas is coming Have ordered a USB 3.1 drive to help with performance and a fan case.
I use it as my main pc, the 400 has been great but it can struggle so will put this in, dug out a mini wireless keyboard so should be fine, keyboard looks like annidebticql layout to the 400 so will do.
ajprice said:
Not exactly Raspberry Pi, but it's on the Pi Hut site. Watchy, an open source epaper watch (ie. A Pebble Watch)
https://thepihut.com/products/sqfmi-watchy?mc_cid=...
The HDMI socket on my Pi 4 is getting a bit dodgy, so ordered a 5. `I’m guessing I won’t see it in time for Christmas…. I like the idea of a fan header and the upcoming PCIe 2/3 HAT. I’m guessing it will take an NVMe 2230 or 2242 SSD, so will take a look what’s on sale for Black Friday; https://thepihut.com/products/sqfmi-watchy?mc_cid=...
Im going to have a lot more time on my hands going forward, due to a life change. I have a draw full of PIs, Screens, sensors and what not. Need to think about what to do. I had been deisging a weather station in Fusion to 3D print so might carry on with that and then use a touchscreen for the display inside.
Anybody got some good ideas of things to work on? Im interested in weather, planes, stars and space. Thought about maybe an ADSB receiver, or maybe a telescope motorized base star tracker.
Anybody got some good ideas of things to work on? Im interested in weather, planes, stars and space. Thought about maybe an ADSB receiver, or maybe a telescope motorized base star tracker.
Scabutz said:
Im going to have a lot more time on my hands going forward, due to a life change. I have a draw full of PIs, Screens, sensors and what not. Need to think about what to do. I had been deisging a weather station in Fusion to 3D print so might carry on with that and then use a touchscreen for the display inside.
Anybody got some good ideas of things to work on? Im interested in weather, planes, stars and space. Thought about maybe an ADSB receiver, or maybe a telescope motorized base star tracker.
Sounds like me, but my life change hasn't happened yet... Anybody got some good ideas of things to work on? Im interested in weather, planes, stars and space. Thought about maybe an ADSB receiver, or maybe a telescope motorized base star tracker.
Here's some things on my list:
- getting a flightaware adsb, setting up a receiving station and contributing to the project.
- same for wunderground
- same for however lightning.org works
... but these are easy. Just a matter of kit.
Do you have a view out your house? Can you see traffic? Planes? Boats?
I hope to wind up somewhere with a view.
If it has a road, I want to set up frigate and some kind of classification engine to record vehicle types with time.
If it has boats, I want to add real-time labels of each boat's AIS transponder (and I'd contribute up to Marine Traffic) as overlays to the video stream.
In theory could do the same to planes, but it would take a hell of a camera and a very wide lens.
^^ so all computer vision applications, possibly getting into corel boards and the like...
And then there's Home Assistant. Just got myself a Home Assistant Green. Which is certain to sit unused until that mythical "week or so" when I can get it all set up. Would love to create a lovelace dashboard.
On the back end of all the above, I'd set up an influxdb and graphana combinination just to log every one of these streams in my own system.
Why? Don't know.
There are so many alternatives to the Pi now - some better, some worse, some cheaper, some dearer.
I occasionally watch the 'Explaining Computers' channel on YouTube - he reviews a variety of SBC boards with benchmarks etc.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbiGcwDWZjz05njNP...
I occasionally watch the 'Explaining Computers' channel on YouTube - he reviews a variety of SBC boards with benchmarks etc.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbiGcwDWZjz05njNP...
TonyRPH said:
There are so many alternatives to the Pi now - some better, some worse, some cheaper, some dearer.
I occasionally watch the 'Explaining Computers' channel on YouTube - he reviews a variety of SBC boards with benchmarks etc.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbiGcwDWZjz05njNP...
And as far as I can tell, all of them have far worse OS and software support. The Pi hardware is only one piece of the puzzle.I occasionally watch the 'Explaining Computers' channel on YouTube - he reviews a variety of SBC boards with benchmarks etc.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbiGcwDWZjz05njNP...
mikef said:
I’m quite intrigued by the (still unreleased) PCMIe HAT for the RPi 5
Stick in an NVMe 2230 or 2242 drive and it should be capable of a number of interesting applications
A couple of years ago, I designed a Mini-ITX board using a Pi Compute 4 module. Unfortunately, the chip shortage bit hard, and I've kinda lost the will to complete it (a couple of non-functional prototypes were made, mainly for fitment checks).Stick in an NVMe 2230 or 2242 drive and it should be capable of a number of interesting applications
It had SATA, PCIe and USB 3 capabilities, including a 2230/42/80 slot (admittedly for SATA, rather than full PCIe).
Scolmore said:
And as far as I can tell, all of them have far worse OS and software support. The Pi hardware is only one piece of the puzzle.
Most (if not all of them) support Linux, which is the target O/S of choice.I think you'd have to be a masochist to want to run Windows on a Pi.
Therefore I don't think O/S support is an issue at all...
TonyRPH said:
Most (if not all of them) support Linux, which is the target O/S of choice.
I think you'd have to be a masochist to want to run Windows on a Pi.
Therefore I don't think O/S support is an issue at all...
I think the tendency is for many of these SBCs to run some lashed up distro that's specific to the hardware, and the manufacturer never or rarely updates it subsequently, so you might find in a couple of years you don't have a driver for various things you might like to plug into it, or lack any security updates.I think you'd have to be a masochist to want to run Windows on a Pi.
Therefore I don't think O/S support is an issue at all...
Contrast with Raspberry Pi, that has big investment in the platform software, and you can run the latest release on the original 2012 Pi.
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