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Finally started using my Raspberry Pi! I built a bus clock to know when to leave the house and never miss the bus again. Wrote this little post to share the de
by fersarr 4y ago
Finally started using my Raspberry Pi! I built a bus clock to know when to leave the house and never miss the bus again. Wrote this little post to share the details and some pictures.
- pmontra 4y ago"Error establishing a database connection" Probably HN killed the server. BTW, where did you buy the Pi, or did you already have it at home?
- noodlesUK 4y agoIt’s sad because I desperately want a raspberry pi or two for some projects I’ve been kicking the can on, but I simply can’t get them for anywhere close to MSRP. The shortage hurts.
- Grimburger 4y agoPerhaps try an equivalent like odroid? You usually get far more compute per $ anyway.
- dual_dingo 4y agoI haven't closely monitored the situation for years now, but it used to be the case that OS/software support for anything than a Raspi was often spotty at best. With a Raspi, you not only have Raspian/RPiOS that fully supports all models back to the first one from 2011, but a decent number of really good alternatives like Fedora, Ubuntu and special appliance variants, e.g. for console emulation etc. In contrast, my last experiments with some other SBCs consisted of downloading some ancient ISO files of questionable provenance from some shady .cn domains. It might have gotten better, but one should carefully investigate the software situation before buying a non-RPi SBC.
- fragmede 4y agoIt depends on your level of expertise and how comfortable you are straying from an online guide. It's just a small matter of computer engineering, for different difficulty values of "just".
- icelancer 4y agoThis is getting significantly better and fast - largely due to RPis being unavailable for 2 years and growing (and won't get better anytime soon). Odroid's ecosystem is quite a bit better these days. I highly recommend getting an XU-4 from Ameridroid or HardKernel themselves (my last order arrived within 10 days from South Korea to the west coast with zero customers issues) for a fraction of the RPi 4 MSRP cost (much less what it actually costs now) and tinker.
- icelancer 4y agoWe switched to Odroid XU-4s for this reason.
- inferiorhuman 4y agoYa know, I just realized I missed the Thursday batch of Pi4s and got to thinking about my ODroid C1. I have generic USB cables and chargers laying around but I still don't know where my non-standard C1 charger went. The last time I made this sort of comment one of the top replies was that Pis are notoriously picky about their power supplies. Be that as it may I've not run into any trouble with my Pis (Zero W + 3B). Hence I'm using my Pis while my C1 sits unused.
- JonathanBuchh 4y agohttps://rpilocator.com https://rpilocator.com is great for finding Pi's closer to MSRP. You just have to waif for them to be in stock.
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- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoI have one or two I’ll sell you below MSRP. I don’t use them anymore (barely did did to begin with). Email is in my profile. I just sold a Remarkable2 eink tablet to another HNer this way!
- JoshMcguigan 4y agoThanks for sharing! In the first screenshot of CLI output, it seems to show three buses all being 1 minute out? Am I misreading that?
- fersarr 4y agoYea I was surprised with that one too. It wasn't my local station but I think that sometimes happens when it's a busy station at a busy time so they have more than one bus. Or it might be a bug.
- handelaar 4y agoNot very surprising to me that they'd start bunching by Bethnal Green tube having all just been slogging their way through Mare Street in Hackney, honestly