The raspberry (pi) patch
This is a seedling 🌱 planted on Wed Oct 25, 2023
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Introduction

The Raspberry Pi is a single-board computer (SBC) designed to run at low power and sell at a low cost (ignore the pi4 supply shortage).

Owned models

I have the zeros for HATs and little GPIO experiments I can't do on the picos. One used to be a "youtube machine" hooked on my TV before the youtube kodi app got toasted.

The 3A+ was a home server for about two months. I ran DietPi on it (absolutely recommend it). I had to buy a 3 cause 4s were silly expensive at the time, though I feel I got scammed by paying ~50 quid on this lol. It turned out to be a bit underpowered for my server, and it would mysteriously die at times which meant uptime wasn't great.

The Picos are my main go-tos for hardware stuff. I've used from mini LCDs to soil sensors with these. I've got a W embedded into Pimoroni's Inky Frame, which is a 7-colour e-ink display. It fetches public transport and weather data every morning for me, then displays some random pictures I uploaded. This sadly is out of commission right now due to it non-stop crashing on some API fetch... too lazy to fix it


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