First part of a new long term home project coming in. An #Ubiquiti PoE+ switch to power a small #Kubernetes cluster built using #raspberrypi nodes. Going to blog about every step once it has been completed. But it is going to be a few quarters long project doing bit by bit
The Raspberry Pi 5 is 2.5x faster than the Pi 4 (sometimes more!), and I have the FULL rundown — let me walk you through it in this thread. #RaspberryPi#Pi5
:raspberrypi: Raspberry Pi 5 is coming :raspberrypi:
With more than twice the speed of Raspberry Pi 4, and featuring our brand new RP1 chip, we’ve refined the Raspberry Pi experience.
It’s the everything computer. Optimised.
Priced at $60 for the 4GB variant, and $80 for its 8GB sibling, units are already available to pre-order from many of our Approved Resellers, and will ship at the end of October.
With the #RaspberryPi5 releasing, don't forget how they boasted about hiring an ex surveillance cop, then ridiculed the people who criticized them for it.
Also remember how you weren't able to buy a Pi for months because they prioritized supplying their business customers.
I'm not buying #RaspberryPi products any longer, nor do I recommend them to my friends and clients. The Pi Foundation has become seriously out of touch.
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.
Ausblick: Ich arbeite gerade an einem aktuellen Tutorial für Pi-hole auf einem Raspberry Pi. Dieser wird ins Heimnetzwerk eingebunden und die Fritz!Box als vorgeschalteter DNS-Server verwendet. HowTo mit Beschreibung, warum das Setup sinnvoll ist, wird demnächst erscheinen. 🍓
Fixed my #adsb receiver, hopefully- switched to a beefy AudioWind DC to DC regulator to go from 12V to 5V supply for the #raspberrypi - prior converter seemed unreliable. #electronics
I've been using #nixos on a #RaspberryPi to run some services for a year or two now, because I really wanted declarative configuration and to lose the stress of upgrades/etc., but it turns out Nixos SUCKS on the Pi (don't @ me, you know it's true or you haven't tried). I bought a laptop-in-a-mini-form-factor-desktop x86 machine to replace it, but ... I'm exhausted just thinking about it. Installing w/ ZFS was not painless. I want private services, but I don't want to sysadmin them.
Disappointed to see that #Firefox is still broken on #FreeBSD arm64 (on #RaspberryPi 4). It was working so well on 13.1, and now it segfaults and dumps the core upon launch, unable to launch any pages.
The worst part is that Firefox is the only modern browser packaged for that architecture, meaning that even if I bit the bullet to use (barf) Chromium, it's not there in the repositories.
And to think that FreeBSD once was the best OS on the Pi for me. Now it's basically useless :(
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!
I wonder how reliable WiFi connections are on the Raspberry Pi Pico W. Could I set two up to talk to each other and it'll just work, even after I ship it to someone across the country? How reliable is it? Will they always see each other properly?
I haven't done much with WiFi stuff on microcontrollers, and... I know it should just work, but the real world is a harsh environment.
@scruss Found another problem with USB storage emulation on #CircuitPython on the #raspberrypi Pico. If you have the drive mounted and do suspend/resume on the PC, drive interactions on restart can stop the python code running!
Do you want to gloat how many Mastodon followers you have by showing that glorious number on a wall or a shelf? Look no further, I have a solution for you!
You can do it easily with a Raspberry Pi, a four digit display and 10 lines of Python. The instructions are in my newest blog post:
GOOD NEWS! I can confidently say: the Pi shortage seems to be wrapping up. Don't buy from scalpers, you won't have to wait long for a re-stock from local #RaspberryPi resellers.
sigh I really need to come up with a reliable and inexpensive way to power cycle some equipment remotely.
My #raspberryPi is up and running but the two #SDR software defined radios aren't responding even after rebooting the computer. The computer was involuntarily power cycled twice yesterday when the power went out and when the backup generator transferred the house back to the grid after grid power was restored.
Or maybe the SDRs need to be reseated in their USB ports? 🤔