Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral
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Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral
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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral
#2I fail to imagine a usw case for that.
Could someone enlighten me?
Re: Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral
#3Site is getting a bit slow - mirror here: http://archive.is/3bp5L
Re: Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral
#4I fail to imagine a usw case for that. Could someone enlighten me?
... build a smart boot device that provides a bunch of different CD images for BIOSes that don't do USB boot well
... build a safe password keeper that looks like a HID device
... do something interesting with USB-based gamepads to map those to keyboard keys for playing old DOS games
... make a connected USB storage device that offers some sort of additional sync services for the data stored on it (maybe over wifi?)
... make a network adapter that also acts as a firewall, or possibly links to tor/vpn/etc
... Something something MIDI over USB
Re: Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral
#5I fail to imagine a usw case for that. Could someone enlighten me?
Say you are a mac user and want a portable Linux environment to play with that has GPIO? (That you can use on a plane)
You want to run a secure off line personal Certificate Authority (a Pi Zero would probably be enough and can work in the same way)
It can also be any other type of USB device, e.g. a HID device (keyboard/mouse/joystick) you can dream up loads of interesting things to do with this
Re: Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral
#6I fail to imagine a usw case for that. Could someone enlighten me?
So you can add GPIO to your computer with lots of preprocessing power.
Re: Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral
#7I fail to imagine a usw case for that. Could someone enlighten me?
Say you are a mac user and want a portable Linux environment to play with that has GPIO? (That you can use on a plane) You want to run a secure off line personal Certificate Authority (a Pi Zero would probably be enough and can work in the same way) It can also be any other type of USB device, e.g. a HID device (keyboard/mouse/joystick) you can dream up loads of interesting things to do with this
I use a 3A+ for this. Works great, uses a lot less power, and is smaller.
Re: Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral
#8I fail to imagine a usw case for that. Could someone enlighten me?
... build a smart boot device that provides a bunch of different CD images for BIOSes that don't do USB boot well ... build a safe password keeper that looks like a HID device ... do something interesting with USB-based gamepads to map those to keyboard keys for playing old DOS games ... make a connected USB storage device that offers some sort of additional sync services for the data stored on it (maybe over wifi?)…
> ... build a smart boot device that provides a bunch of different CD images for BIOSes that don't do USB boot ...
There’s an Android app for that, it’s one of the biggest things I miss after switching to the iPhone.
Re: Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Say you are a mac user and want a portable Linux environment to play with that has GPIO? (That you can use on a plane) You want to run a secure off line personal Certificate Authority (a Pi Zero would probably be enough and can work in the same way) It can also be any other type of USB device, e.g. a HID device (keyboard/mouse/joystick) you can dream up loads of interesting things to do with this
I use a 3A+ for this. Works great, uses a lot less power, and is smaller.
The power draw is better with the new bootloader (lets the whole USB stack drop into low power mode)
Also this is USB-C native for all the mac book folk out there that hate to carry all those adapters
Re: Raspberry Pi 4 as a USB-C peripheral
#10I fail to imagine a usw case for that. Could someone enlighten me?
Say you are a mac user and want a portable Linux environment to play with that has GPIO? (That you can use on a plane) You want to run a secure off line personal Certificate Authority (a Pi Zero would probably be enough and can work in the same way) It can also be any other type of USB device, e.g. a HID device (keyboard/mouse/joystick) you can dream up loads of interesting things to do with this
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