This one took weeks to write. It's about me finding a way to significantly reduce the power consumption of a Raspberry Pi Pico W working as a weather station, collecting environmental data.
I am also writing about powering the Pico using solar panels, and this time it's a success, my weather station can now run indefinitely, powered by the sun!
Probably idiot question.
If I were to make a #Mastodon bot* in #python as a learning project, do I need a machine running constantly to run it, or should I do it on a cloud service?
I got a #raspberrypi sitting around, would that do?
(*One that regularly posts a Josephine Baker photo, if you're interested)
The Pico microcontroller from #RaspberryPi is pretty great because it's cheap, available, has two cores and PIO functionality, and last but not least because of the comprehensive documentation. Everything is collected here: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com (search for "pico" on the page, see screenshot).
Blackberry Pi is up and running! A #raspberrypi 4 running #kali#Linux, with a BlackBerry Q10 keyboard and mouse, 9000mah battery, usbc fast charging, and a hidpi touch screen (Pimaroni Hyperpixel)
They just came today & don’t even have OSes yet, but I have already named these two “Chopper” and “Mixer” while it’s still May the 4th. They are for digital signage at a local restaurant, where Boil already serves.
They join Appo, Cody, Echo, Fives, Fox, Hardcase, Hevy, Hunter, Jesse, Omega, Rex, Tech, and Wolffe in my “regiment” of computers that I manage, all named after clones from Clone Wars.
And this is apparently my 5,000th post on Mastodon!
Les personnes qui utilisent un raspi ET un SSD externe, comment faire vous en sorte qu'ils soient solidaire ? Un élastique (bof) adhésif double face, de la superglue, autre…
It's automated with Ansible, pulling ZFS snapshots from my beefy HL15 rackmount NAS, and it's sipping 8.5W while doing so. More to come, here's the story so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8EIs8s303k
@geerlingguy#sanoid & #syncoid are really neat. At some point I was even using a #raspberryPi 1 as a backup host, no need for a lot of power/bandwidth if you don't deal with terabytes of changes at once :)
The Golden era of Mini PCs - more powerful and often less $ than a #RaspberryPi - because we are in the tail end of #Intel's monolithic die. Notice #AMD has no super value proposition low end chips to go into a ~$150ish mini! Why? Chiplets and fabrics. Intel missed this boat and when an i9 doesn't come out of the oven right they fuse off features and it becomes an i7, i5, i3, all the way down to the kind of amazing value n100 which you find in $120 PCs. Intel is onto chiplets now, era to end!
Just managed to finish editor version v0.11.0-alpha. It has bugs, some of which might be engine regressions, will try to fix them ASAP. It has Windows, x64 Linux, and aarch64 Linux (#raspberrypi) versions.
Hm, ich möchte mein #HomeAssistant demnächst auf ein #raspberrypi 4 umziehen. Auf 5 macht meines Erachtens keinen Sinn. Das TDP ist mir da zu hoch, Lüfter will ich nicht, das muss schon passiv funktionieren und die Performance wird reichen, weil HA (noch) auf meinem Synology NAS im Docker läuft.
Aber mit SSD wäre der Pi 5 geeigneter.
Es gibt verschiedene Szenarien. Eines wäre bei null anzufangen, mit HA OS lokaler DB, da wäre die SSD sinnvoll.
Pineberry Pi is renaming to Pineboards, and they are launching some new boards. I'm excited for them, they are a small Polish company that makes boards for Raspberry Pi 5.
I’ve been rebuilding a #RaspberryPi installation that supports my classic Mac habit 😄
I used to use the awesome #MacIPGW image which includes a ton of pre-configured software like #netatalk. But it hasn’t been updated in a while so I used it as excuse to start from scratch.
I used this Pi Zero W as my starting point. HDMI video stopped working on it for unknown reasons. I added an Ethernet/USB hub hat and a #TashTalk 2 hat for #LocalTalk devices.
https://www.printables.com/model/742926-raspberry-pi-5-case hat mit meinem ender gleich um ein vielfaches besser funktioniert. bei dem vorher hab ich versucht abzuschleifen und zu hobeln und bin zu keinem tollen ergebnis gekommen (ein druck hat sich sogar total verzogen) – hier musste ich nur ein bisschen mit dem taschenmesser hinterherlaufen und beim knopf ein blatt papier falten und alles haut perfekt hin 🤙 #raspberrypi