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Except for the Pico (which is very different from the full RPi), you could do all that with a mini-PC. There are certainly usecases, especially using the RPi's
by dvdkon 1y ago
Except for the Pico (which is very different from the full RPi), you could do all that with a mini-PC.
There are certainly usecases, especially using the RPi's low-level IO, where that's not possible, but as you yourself have shown, people do often get into situations where they are competitors.
- geon 1y agoThe more standardized hardware if the rpi tends to make a lot of stuff much easier.
- wpm 1y agoA miniPC is just a PC though, with UEFI and ACPI, how are they not standard?
- firesteelrain 1y agoI just can’t see putting the NUC in my attic for example with my ADSB receiver
- dingaling 1y agoProbably shouldn't have your decoder in the attic anyway, as they aren't well suppressed in terms of EM interference which will seep into the antenna. Particularly a cheap AC-DC wall wart, they're basically broad-spectrum noise-jammers. I shunt the USB output of the SSR dongles onto Ethernet and pipe that to the PC downstairs.
- firesteelrain 1y agoHuh? It’s ADSB 1090 MHz on a short run of coax to a FlightAware SDR USB dongle. It’s an urban environment so I don’t expect much but I receive plenty of aircraft over 300 nm. Any further away and I would have loss due to inherent limitations of the coax. I could go with like LMR400 but I am not going to spend that kind of money or add like a LNA. This is a setup people commonly use