Or antenna headers. And don't tell me I can just DIY scratch up the PCB and make a solder point 1mm in diameter between two other circuits I'm not supposed to touch.

[–] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 10 points 11 months ago

It's getting silly now.

Rather have a decent mini pc with power adaptor with a 2.5 Gbps ethernet.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Aha, here comes the 16gb Pi 500 with a working M.2 slot. It never stops.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Do I feel sarcasm? Because I actually struggle to set up my Pi5 with the M2 hat I got 🥲.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Just curioys, why wouldn't you buy say a 50€ thinkcentre instead or a raspberry?

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Same reason as any other mini PC.

GPIO.

Honestly there is no other reason to use pi. Just the simple ability ti connect and build your own connection stuff.

Pi is by far the easiest system with a well suppirted os and api for learning\experimentation.

When to comes to using as a desktop etc. There are loads of better options if gpio is not wanted.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

But even with GPIO, there's other cheaper boards out there with better specs to boot

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I tried the orange pi, and that was a hassle, I had to fix and compile some obscure library in C to make python control I/O work.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah but non with better support. They all tend to have OSes with limited updates and/or community support.

That is a huge plus for pi. And likely the only reason they survive.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fair.

I always thought about the raspberries strength as small mobile devices. If I want IO on my PC I could buy an adapter/card. Or use my raspberry because I have one or two ofc. It sure is easy with them.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Best adaptor out there, atm. Is a pi zero with gpiozero on it. There really is not much in the way of adaptors with the support and flexibility for beginners that pi provides.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I meant an adapter for a classic PC, like a usb/serial port adapter.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So did I. Pi zero can boot via USB otg and act as a USB gpio port.

Have to tried it yet bout planning to.

Gpiozero is the library used.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ha yes of course, using a raspberry so you don't need to use a raspberry (small pi vs big pi)!

Now I want to do just that but over wifi...

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago

More small pie and full power PC already in place.

The issue with other options is lack of community support. So less usable for beginners and experimentation.

But def agree with the WiFi thing.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

hmmm I'm not sure now 😅

I'm using the RPi for other projects but this one was for a server and I might not have put much thought for the hardware

But I've never seen a mini PC that cheap though?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It depends on when big companies throws out their pcs, like when they are 5 years old, or so it feels.

I did a quick search on ebay, it probably depends on where you live but I stumbled upon a 55€ one here

The problem with tinkcentres (tiny here) is that they are really easy to open and service, usually has place for a 2'5 drive plus a nvme and had two sodim slots, plus some funky stuff like small cards and CD player and so on so eventually it might cost more than 50€...

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The problem with tinkcentres (tiny here) is that they are really easy to open and service,

Is that really a problem 😅

I'm actually in France, but somehow ebay is not really in my mind, so u totally miss those, I'll have a look because it sure looks like less trouble to go this way than with the raspberry pi, even the OS as it would be a 64bits and not ARM (if I looked well on the specs)

(edit) also, now that I look at my setups I realize that I don't even use much of the GPIo on the rpi4 because I have a stupid amount of Esp32 spread everywhere in my place that fulfill the need

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Quel coïncidence :-D ! Bordeaux ici !

Do you control the esps from your network? I did some simple sever controlled I/O with esp8266 (IIRC, the first popular esp).

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

The comment was about the 500, which currently has non-working M2, as a money grab apparently.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cool but the orange pi is like 20 usd

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you like the orange pi? I like the idea of it being so much cheaper and I love competition, but not sure if I wanna take the jump yet.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago

Waited until I had tried it a little to actually comment lol but so far so good. I haven't used it as a controller or anything like that like I did the Pi, but as an OMV server I have no complaints.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

There are better options at that price point