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Doesn’t seem to have 802.11 WiFi on board. Would have been nice for diy iot projects on the raspberry ecosystem.

adamfeldman 8y ago
Not quite DIY prices, but companies like Balena make RPi Compute Module carrier boards w/ WiFi https://www.balena.io/fin https://www.balena.io/fin
- 24gttghh 8y ago
  Well, at least it wont shit the bed (i.e. SD card corruption) on a power fluctuation? Is there something with similar hardware? Basically something with built-in, actual SSD flash. I love the size and low-power use of the RPi 3+, but I hate having it's SD card die on me...
  - naikrovek 8y ago
    You can use flash drives over USB on RPi 2 and up. Boot from them and everything. Requires a tiny bit of setup.
    - wolrah 8y ago
      Requires a SD card containing an updated bootrom on Pi 2. Pi 3 has the update bootrom but needs a bit flipped in OTP to enable the feature. Pi 3B+ has network and USB booting enabled out of the box.
    - glenneroo 8y ago
      If you go this route, be forewarned: not all SSD enclosures work. Do a bit of research on Raspberry forums before making any purchases. Also, Pi 2/3/B+ sadly don't support USB 3.0 devices, so much for backwards compatibility. I bought a handful of cheap SSDs and USB 3.0 enclosures for this exact purpose, but still haven't got any of them to boot, even though I did research and supposedly bought several from Sabrent that should work. In retrospect I should have looked closer, Sabrent makes a bunch of very similarly named drives with slightly different specs, some of which apparently aren't compatible. I found a forum comment suggesting to try the enclosure with USB 2.0 cables, but that avenue has been fruitless thus far. I will probably have to order some USB 2.0 enclosures.
- mark_l_watson 8y ago
  Thanks to other commenters for the Balena and miniNodes links. I would be interested in something neatly packaged so it would look nice on my desk that had about a dozen computer boards with local networking set up.
matthewmacleod 8y ago
The other option for that use case is the Pi Zero W, which is probably a bit friendlier for most use-cases. It has the older BCM2835 from the Pi 1 (but at 1GHz) – it's quite a bit cheaper, though does require the additional SD card.

Not quite DIY prices, but companies like Balena make RPi Compute Module carrier boards w/ WiFi https://www.balena.io/fin https://www.balena.io/fin

24gttghh 8y ago
Well, at least it wont shit the bed (i.e. SD card corruption) on a power fluctuation? Is there something with similar hardware? Basically something with built-in, actual SSD flash. I love the size and low-power use of the RPi 3+, but I hate having it's SD card die on me...
- naikrovek 8y ago
  You can use flash drives over USB on RPi 2 and up. Boot from them and everything. Requires a tiny bit of setup.
  - wolrah 8y ago
    Requires a SD card containing an updated bootrom on Pi 2. Pi 3 has the update bootrom but needs a bit flipped in OTP to enable the feature. Pi 3B+ has network and USB booting enabled out of the box.
  - glenneroo 8y ago
    If you go this route, be forewarned: not all SSD enclosures work. Do a bit of research on Raspberry forums before making any purchases. Also, Pi 2/3/B+ sadly don't support USB 3.0 devices, so much for backwards compatibility. I bought a handful of cheap SSDs and USB 3.0 enclosures for this exact purpose, but still haven't got any of them to boot, even though I did research and supposedly bought several from Sabrent that should work. In retrospect I should have looked closer, Sabrent makes a bunch of very similarly named drives with slightly different specs, some of which apparently aren't compatible. I found a forum comment suggesting to try the enclosure with USB 2.0 cables, but that avenue has been fruitless thus far. I will probably have to order some USB 2.0 enclosures.
mark_l_watson 8y ago
Thanks to other commenters for the Balena and miniNodes links. I would be interested in something neatly packaged so it would look nice on my desk that had about a dozen computer boards with local networking set up.

matthewmacleod 8y ago

The other option for that use case is the Pi Zero W, which is probably a bit friendlier for most use-cases. It has the older BCM2835 from the Pi 1 (but at 1GHz) – it's quite a bit cheaper, though does require the additional SD card.