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I have given away all my Raspberry Pi’s. It’s a dead platform to me. I’ve found thin-clients and “mini”/small form factor PC’s like the HP EliteDesk and Chrome
by mdmglr 4y ago
I have given away all my Raspberry Pi’s. It’s a dead platform to me.
I’ve found thin-clients and “mini”/small form factor PC’s like the HP EliteDesk and Chrome TV Boxes that can run Linux on eBay for less than $70 USD. And significantly more powerful. I let an arduino handle GPIO with a USB serial interface. Great deals can be found from IT equipment liquidators who have 1000s of those types of machines.
What drove me to those x86 machines was I needed to run some proprietary scanner drivers for a project. And those driver were only available for x86.
- akulbe 4y agoWhat makes it a dead platform to you?
- sidewndr46 4y agoDo you care to share any of the model numbers you have found that you can load custom software on? I was at Goodwill once and they had an essentially endless supply of some x86 thin-client for $9.95 each. The problem was I couldn't find any info about how to run my own OS on it.
- slim 4y agodid you try booting debian from a usb stick on it ?