It was nice knowing Raspberry Pi while they lasted. Going to suck losing something that has changed the homegrown embedded system hobby forever.
It was nice knowing Raspberry Pi while they lasted. Going to suck losing something that has changed the homegrown embedded system hobby forever.
N100 mini PCs are where it’s at these days anyways. Unless you need the GPIO pins or are running some weird niche configuration, you’re better off grabbing any N100, they’re cheaper too.
PIs are kind of screwed from N* on the higher power end and ESP32 (or similar high power micro controllers) the lower end.
It’s become an underpowered middle player no one needs.
It was good while it lasted. PI3’s for $30 we’re amazing.
I look for broken but working sff/tiny deals. Scored a sweet i5 7500 /16gb system for $100CAD. Just had a broken audio port I was never going to use.
The fool you will be revealed to be once I complete my Ethernet Over Audio implementation.
I just want you to know this is one of my favorite comments of all time.
It is I! USB-C-MAN! Begone with you foul villain!
Oh boy, you’ve got a lot of protocols you can borrow for your OSI layer 1. ribbitradio and the telephone modem spec.
Isn’t that just a telephone modem?
No, silly, that’s Audio Over Ethernet! /j
After some light searching, am I missing something? I don’t see n100 cheaper than rpi 5
You’re forgetting to include the Pi heatsink, the Pi power supply and the Pi enclosure.
Yeah good point, adds $10-$30 on top of rpi
Cheapest I’ve seen was $105
Yeah, they’re nearly twice the price.
Far more capable though, and typically specced with 16GB RAM and a 500GB SSD.
Or get a used Thinkcentre tiny, way cheaper. Some have a serial out too.
I have a pi 4, how would the transfer work? Can you install pios on the n100 and just clone stuff over?
N100 is a standard Intel x86 family chip, so no. Plenty of power though, so you’d be able to install any Linux distro or even Windows if you wanted to disgust Lemmy.
GPIOs are the easy bit. You can get those no issue on x86. It’s I2C and SPI that are the issue with x86. You can get the buses sure, but all the device drivers are Device Tree based. You can’t just throw in Device Tree overlays on x86.