What has happened to Raspberry Pi?

[passedpawn]

My current inventory For each one, I have one of these nifty little 7" LCDs that the Pi mounts directly to. I'm not a "Pi" guy, but occasionally I have clients that want a very fast prototype for something with a screen, and I use these (I have a buddy who does the GUI - I do the hardware/firmware design). You can see some green pcbs in the corner that these mounted onto.

 

[Dr_Jeff]

So I have seen online recently.

Raspberry Pi Zero

Banana Pi

Orange Pi = several models, seems to be similar to Raspberry Pi

Rock Pi

BeagleBones

A29-OLinuxino-LIME

ASUS Tinker Board

ODRIOD-C2

Devkit - multiple models

Hackberry

Nitrogen6X

IMX - several models

PandaBoard - several models

Pine A64 & A64+

RicoBoard

WandBoard - several models

Zturn board - several models

FZ3 Deep Learning Accelerator Card

Most have similar features at different price points.
Are any of these any value to the brew community?

https://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/arm-boards

 

[matt_m]

Without trying very hard, I've sold (2) 3B v1.2's and a 2B for $170 total in the last couple weeks. Two were previously retired, 1 I replaced with a Celeron MiniPC.

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

Are any of these any value to the brew community?

Other than Pi Zero [1], do any of the boards come with Linux distros and developer tool chains that have been proven safe and effective over the life-time of the product?

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

Another thing to research is the history of the company and the primary people involved. If the company has no successful products over a decade or if it has a history of product failures/recalls, it may be hard to consider that product safe and effective for home brewing.

Some research can prevent a SBC purchase from having adverse side effects, prevent lost time due to troubleshooting, and (perhaps most importantly) prevent the early death of a batch of beer.

 

[Thorrak]

Having never used any of the other ARM boards, do they run RPi OS, Ubuntu/Debian for ARMv7/8, or some vendor specific distribution?

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

do they run RPi OS, Ubuntu/Debian for ARMv7/8, or some vendor specific distribution?

For some boards, that information can be found at the product's web site.

Crowd sourced opinion and information can be found at "Hacker News" (https://news.ycombinator.com/) - periodically there links to SBC articles links (and discussion). reddit is also likely to be a source of links to expert bloggers as well as opinions.

 

[Dr_Jeff]

Having never used any of the other ARM boards, do they run RPi OS, Ubuntu/Debian for ARMv7/8, or some vendor specific distribution?

The Orange Pi ($39 with case and power supply) does for sure (Debian/Unintu & Orange Pi OS), I expect that others do as well.

 

[Dr_Jeff]

What OS can Orange Pi run?

What is Orange Pi. It's an open-source single-board computer. It can run Android 4.2, Android4. 4, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Raspbian, ArchLinux,openSUSE, OpenWrt, and other OS systems.

What is the difference between Raspberry Pi and Orange Pi?

While comparing both, Orange Pi performs better than Raspberry Pi. For the higher range systems concerned, Raspberry uses 1.4 GHz quadcore and Orange uses 1.6 GHz quadcore processors. The memory capacity is the same for both as 1 GB, but Orange uses DDR3 and Raspberry uses LPDDR2.

I would expect some of the others to be similar enough.

 

[day_trippr]

The stated memory capacity fingers that as old text, fwiw.
I have an RPi4B with 4GB and there's an 8GB model now...

Cheers!

 

[Dr_Jeff]

I saw a rack on Amazon that allows one to run R Pis in a cluster, several held four along with 2.5" ssd hard drives, others as many as twenty.

What would one do with that many R Pis, running in cluster mode?

 

[Thorrak]

I use them for building Fermentrack/KegScreen. One running 64 bit, one running 32 bit, one running a test environment for docker, and one running my 3D printer and label printer.

 

[day_trippr]

https://turingpi.com/12-amazing-raspberry-pi-cluster-use-cases/
Cheers!

 

[jpitz31]

Yes, they have gone up, but do not buy from Amazon. Check out Buy CanaKit Raspberry Pi Kits and Raspberry Pi Boards and Accessories Not as bad as Amazon. They have some nice kits.

Cheers

 

[passedpawn]

I saw a rack on Amazon that allows one to run R Pis in a cluster, several held four along with 2.5" ssd hard drives, others as many as twenty.

What would one do with that many R Pis, running in cluster mode?

bitcoin mining ? haha.

 

[BurrowK]

bitcoin mining ? haha.

LOL yea.... although by now mining furor must be at its lowest point....... mining it's not what it used to be, specially bc energy prices and btc price......hmmm makes me think how things changed within a year