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Trying to build the ultimate Raspberry Pi computer – Zero Terminal V3

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Re: Trying to build the ultimate Raspberry Pi computer – Zero Terminal V3

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Post by dfox »

p0llard wrote: post #29
mschuster91 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh finally . That's good news especially for people who'd like to tinker with advanced stuff requiring PCI-E chipsets who don't really have the nerve to risk wrecking a hundreds of dollars worth of x86 mainboard/CPU...

> tinker with advanced stuff requiring PCI-E chipsets What sort of things are you talking about here, out of interest? The only way you're going to wreck hardware is if you're attaching something completely incompatible at the physical level (wrong levels, shorts, etc.); if you're "tinkering" you almost certainly don't have the resources to bring up your own PCIe PHY (there's pretty much no way to do this without cus…

Gamers and crypto miners do various nasty things to PCIe cards in order to use cheapest cable possible to extend it and actual hardware damage resulting from that seems pretty minimal.

Re: Trying to build the ultimate Raspberry Pi computer – Zero Terminal V3

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Post by jstanley »

imtringued wrote: post #22
verytrivial wrote: post #21

HN has given N O D E love for the design aesthetic of the presentation and video format recently, but it feels like I'm being fed the details via Morse code. It's infuriating! There is no summary, no overview, no block diagram, just a wall of transcribed prose and gamble on a non-indexed, un-subtitled 8 minute video. I imagine many people (myself included!) will just go "Okay, there a black brick and screen thing wit…

Well, patience is key. Just read the transcript and you'll notice that the project is not finished.

I think it would be fine if the transcript had photographs, but as it is, the transcript is not really sufficient on its own, so you're forced to watch the video anyway.

Re: Trying to build the ultimate Raspberry Pi computer – Zero Terminal V3

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Post by jstanley »

This is a superb project, really nice work!

I kept thinking "oh nice, you'd just want to add a---" and you've already done it! Incredible stuff. I can't wait to see how this progresses. The keyboard design is really neat. It reminds me a lot of the old Nokia N900, still the best phone I've ever owned.

Do you have any idea how much battery life you get?

Re: Trying to build the ultimate Raspberry Pi computer – Zero Terminal V3

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Post by test1235 »

imtringued wrote: post #22
verytrivial wrote: post #21

HN has given N O D E love for the design aesthetic of the presentation and video format recently, but it feels like I'm being fed the details via Morse code. It's infuriating! There is no summary, no overview, no block diagram, just a wall of transcribed prose and gamble on a non-indexed, un-subtitled 8 minute video. I imagine many people (myself included!) will just go "Okay, there a black brick and screen thing wit…

Well, patience is key. Just read the transcript and you'll notice that the project is not finished.

or just go check out the comments on HN and see what everyone else says

Re: Trying to build the ultimate Raspberry Pi computer – Zero Terminal V3

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Post by rimliu »

tomcooks wrote: post #12
saagarjha wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> will essentially make this a smartphone replacement to reclaim mobile computing from the duopoly I think it’s a bit too thick to reclaim anything, to be honest, but its nerd cred is off the charts.

I'd rather have a thick phone than a slim chance of not being tracked. I'll build mine with a metal casing and a GPS for outdoor shenanigans, as sturdy as an AK-47 and as thick as the SCIP

Are you going to build your own cell towers too?

Re: Trying to build the ultimate Raspberry Pi computer – Zero Terminal V3

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Post by marasal »

jstanley wrote: post #33

This is a superb project, really nice work! I kept thinking "oh nice, you'd just want to add a---" and you've already done it! Incredible stuff. I can't wait to see how this progresses. The keyboard design is really neat. It reminds me a lot of the old Nokia N900, still the best phone I've ever owned. Do you have any idea how much battery life you get?

I still miss my old Nokia E7 phone with qwerty keyboard.

Re: Trying to build the ultimate Raspberry Pi computer – Zero Terminal V3

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Post by projektfu »

neilv wrote: post #3

This is impressive work, and I would like to have this, or something like this. A question is whether the amount of clever effort that went into working around constraints of the Pi Zero, would be enough to incorporate the Pi Zero aspects of this assembly into a single board? Also, maybe not even an exact Pi, but using a RISC-V core and fully open firmware, even if less powerful at this time?

Is there a RISC-V SOC with HDMI?

Re: Trying to build the ultimate Raspberry Pi computer – Zero Terminal V3

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Post by akhilcacharya »

cricalix wrote: post #7
mschuster91 wrote: post #4

Now imagine this, just with the Compute Module in a version with proper PCI-E... sigh.

Well, supposedly[0] the next iteration of the CM will be based on the Pi 4 guts, and expose the PCIe capabilities. The maker of the hardware being discussed also mentions that they might try the compute module (it probably makes a lot of sense from the custom PCB side of life?). 0: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-nvme-support-...

A Pi4 with 4/8 GB of RAM and NVMe SSD would be a pretty solid general purpose computer honestly!

Re: Trying to build the ultimate Raspberry Pi computer – Zero Terminal V3

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Post by kokey »

neilv wrote: post #3

This is impressive work, and I would like to have this, or something like this. A question is whether the amount of clever effort that went into working around constraints of the Pi Zero, would be enough to incorporate the Pi Zero aspects of this assembly into a single board? Also, maybe not even an exact Pi, but using a RISC-V core and fully open firmware, even if less powerful at this time?

I actually do like the fact that it uses an existing Pi Zero board, even if much creativity is needed to add so much functionality to it in a small space. It reminds me of gopro cameras being taken apart and custom modules added to make it lightweight to use on small drones. I think this is a developing trend, leading to somewhat of an open source supply chain of creative applications for hardware devices. I think we benefit of the economies of scale of the Rpi boards already, just like we do from individual chips, so these custom boards ties that together nicely.
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