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As someone who doesn't own a soldering iron, I've found the $35 Raspberry Pi board [1] [2] [3] to be an excellent choice as a low-cost low-power general-purpose
by csense 13y ago
As someone who doesn't own a soldering iron, I've found the $35 Raspberry Pi board [1] [2] [3] to be an excellent choice as a low-cost low-power general-purpose ARM-based server.
It also has a number of GPIO pins, UART, i2c and SPI, which may be of interest to those who do own soldering irons :)
[1] http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs
[2] A model with no Ethernet is available for $25, but Ethernet is kind of non-optional for a server :)
[3] The price doesn't include power supply, case or boot media.
- stusmall 13y agoWhile we are plugging fun toys I'm going to piggie back on your comment, for those who don't own a soldering iron the Weller WES51 [1] is great! Extremely high quality, great selection of tips, very durable and reliable. You get by far the most for your money with it. The price is low enough for a hobbyist but the quality is high enough for some professional work. [1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BRC2XU/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=27113928363&hvpos=1t2&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2823871302008355468&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_4h0bek3vqx_b http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BRC2XU/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=...
- voltagex_ 13y agoI'm not quite the target market for the Pi, and I love how much attention it's got but even with a home-server workload you may find that you need something a bit beefier. I had a plug-computer before they were cool (the Globalscale Dreamplug) and it's been pretty good for almost 3 years now.
- ttsiodras 13y agoUnless I am mistaken, though, there's no SATA connector on the Pi - is there?