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When I read the headline, I had an alternate vision of this. A super hardened computer, drop proof, waterproof, weatherproof, sandproof, rated for at least 20
by ThinkBeat 5y ago
When I read the headline, I had an alternate vision of this.
A super hardened computer, drop proof, waterproof, weatherproof, sandproof, rated for at least 20 years of
use.
No moveable parts and everything stored on PROM.
It would come with a kit to use any power source
possible
That should be able to survive in remote village with
no supervision required for a long time.
I did not imagine a PI with a plastic case and a standard harddrive.
Clearly the rugged one would cost magnitudes more and
things like WordPress and other programs like it would
not be possible on rugged version either.
I would think that as a plus not a minus.
If a village fills up a blog or some other such software with large amounts of data and the harddrive crashes its gone.
Does not come with a backup as far asI can see
- nfriedly 5y agoI think that's a little unfair. The focus here is on the software. Yes, the examples show it running on a pi, but they don't limit it to that. It should also be able to run on your hypothetical rugged box.
- anamexis 5y agoAs you mention, this would cost magnitudes more. Why not just send at least 20 RPis instead?
- Balduran 5y agoI also thought of this. What’s the max life of a device like raspberry pi? 5? 10 years? What could be the causes of their failure?
- pcdoodle 5y agoA USB booting pi should last 30+ years if it's kept out of the sun and rain.
- myself248 5y agoThere's absolutely nothing preventing you from building your IIAB into precisely such an enclosure with such a power supply. IIAB is a set of scripts to load the software onto such a box, and they also have a cheap hardware recipe that'll get you going for the 99.9994% of situations where being sandproof is not important. But you can use those very same scripts to install the content on your sandproof ultramachine. What's the gripe?
- agnidh 5y agoI should add that there is backup to another sdcard for cloning or archiving. Cost is a major criterion for most deployments that use a Raspberry Pi.