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Nothing wrong with pointing out the Raspberry Pi’s tradeoffs. Of course someone could write an article about the tradeoffs of any single board computer. For m
by billsmithaustin 8y ago
Nothing wrong with pointing out the Raspberry Pi’s tradeoffs. Of course someone could write an article about the tradeoffs of any single board computer. For most of them, the list would start with “More powerful but no community to support it.”
I own several Raspberry Pi’s. One of them is taking time lapse photos of a skyscraper going up two blocks away from my office. It had trouble uploading the photos every morning around 7am. It tended to catch back up at night. The problem went away once I replaced my 2amp power supply with a 2.5amp model. Day photos produce larger image files than night photos. My theory is the Raspberry pi had trouble processing and uploading the larger image files while running under voltage.
- cptskippy 8y agoI never even knew this was a problem until just last night. I wanted to play with OpenCV and so I setup a Pi plugged into a 2.4a ps and got the undervolt icon immediately on boot. I had always used Pi's in headless mode with first boot enabling SSH and connecting to my network so I had never seen the power/temp notifications to question anything. Now I'm wondering the best way to validate the Power supplies and USB cords powering all my other Pi projects scattered around the house. I'm less concerned about the power supplies and more concerned about the cables.
- Odenwaelder 8y agoI'm having great success using Anker PSUs and cords.
- cptskippy 8y agoThanks, I've always heard good things about Anker. I've always bought Aukey power supplies and battery banks and been very happy with them, however I bought a batch of USB cables once that were rubbish and won't ever buy cables from them again.
- hanklazard 8y agoSounds like a cool time lapse and good use of a rpi. When will it be complete and are you going to post it somewhere? I’d like to see it!
- billsmithaustin 8y agoYes I will. In the mean time the most recent photo is always here: http://imgur.com/a/BqbwqRG http://imgur.com/a/BqbwqRG