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Raspberry Pi 5
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Re: Raspberry Pi 5
#12anyone could tell me how did you use raspberry pi?
Yes! I’ve used RPi SBCs for various purposes over time:
- One early RPi I bought when RPi was very new to the market. I played around with it for a while and then I put it in a drawer.
- Months later I pulled it out of the drawer and started hosting my website on it for a while. I have since moved on from using RPi at home for hosting any of my sites. Might do again at some point in time.
- I use an SBC as one of the pieces of electronics that I use for controlling over 9000 LED pixels on a sculpture for which I created the light setup and programming. The LED strips we bought are from China and were supposed to be IP65 but even so we now have a bunch of the pixels showing only red, which is bad. No fault of the SBC. Also the SBC in this installation is not an RPi. But relevant nonetheless.
- I hooked up an image sensor with a lens to an RPi and put it in a surveillance camera housing, and added PoE to it. Currently not in use but would like to deploy somewhere in the future if given the chance to do so.
- I have an RPi that I have connected a 5TB drive to in an enclosure I bought from AliExpress. This RPi I both ssh into from my phone to download things for the future, and I also run a squid proxy on it via which one of my laptops connect.
Re: Raspberry Pi 5
#13I'm happy that they're upgrading the pi, but it's not exactly lightweight computing in terms of power (they recommend a 27W PSU) or performance/watt (see: your cell phone) To me the charm of the raspi ecosystem was always in giving you a very low power, "always on, almost no power draw" linux environment. Oh well, I guess there's always the older versions or the zero for that.
I don't think the newer models are supposed to completely supersede the older models. They are still available, and they still make them. If you have low power needs, you can use those.
Re: Raspberry Pi 5
#14Not going to buy for now but curious if a 16GB RAM version is going to exist.
Re: Raspberry Pi 5
#15anyone could tell me how did you use raspberry pi?
Mine's reading temperature, humidity and pressure from sensors and uploading it to a VPS. My second one that is, my first one hasn't done more than collect dust.
Re: Raspberry Pi 5
#16anyone could tell me how did you use raspberry pi?
The processing unit in my espresso machine died and was back ordered for 4 months, so raspberry pi to the rescue!
Is that much processing power necessary? Not even a little, but hey now it hosts its own web UI (local network only).
Firmware (Elixir, nerves): https://github.com/benwilson512/coffee_time/blob/a49814e5d8a...
Re: Raspberry Pi 5
#17The fins on the active cooler are the wrong orientation (the fan is blowing at the flat sides instead of along it). I'm curious why it was designed this way when so much effort was put into using a proper 4 pin blower fan and header.
It will probably work fine but it's something you notice just like how Dell put the heatsink on the IDRAC card in the R420 the wrong way, which would have significant impacts on airflow and cooling.
Re: Raspberry Pi 5
#18Price? That's what makes raspi different, after all.
Price is actually secondary at this point. The primary advantage of the RPi over a lot of other SBCs is how widespread its use is, and all of the addons you can buy for it.
Re: Raspberry Pi 5
#19What is (or would be) the "Tsundoku" equivalent for Raspberry Pi?
I started with Pi-Hole a few years back but ended up with a commercial paid DNS resolver. The timeline usually goes like this -- will stumble on another interesting video of Jeff Geerling, then spend the weekend tinkering with the Pi, keeps running, forget about it, found it to be not needed, plugs off and is lying around.
[Tsundoku](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku) (Japanese: 積ん読) is the art of buying books and never reading them.
Re: Raspberry Pi 5
#20The fins on the active cooler are the wrong orientation (the fan is blowing at the flat sides instead of along it). I'm curious why it was designed this way when so much effort was put into using a proper 4 pin blower fan and header. It will probably work fine but it's something you notice just like how Dell put the heatsink on the IDRAC card in the R420 the wrong way, which would have significant impacts on airflow…
Because manufacturing... Otherwise you have to CNC the whole thing and it makes it really expensive.