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Pi clone to replace Rasp Pi?
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I've used two BTT 3D printer boards and they are good quality copper boards.? Never tried this one. On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 11:08 AM Christopher Rose <kb8uih88@...> wrote:
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I’ve had good luck with old Chromebooks converted to run Linux… if you don’t need GPIO, these are nice because they have integrated battery, display, and keyboard. Also can be easily had for < $50. I have 5 Lenovo N23, which I use Portable and at repeater sites (as igate).
My main station computer (where I run YAAC) is a SBC, running Armbian. I’ve had no issues with this setup and do use GPIO pins to key the radio. The main problem you’ll have with the clone boards will definitely be finding compatible kernels that support all of the board features you’re trying to use. The big understated feature of the real raspi is amazing compatibility and software support, everything tends to “just work”. With a clone board, you’ll be digging through wiki pages and forum posts trying to figure out what the latest information for your board is. For the specific board you linked, I think you’ll find it severely underpowered for running a graphical window manager and YAAC. If you do go for a knock off board, I’d suggest something with at least 4GB of RAM. -Masen, KF7HVM |
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2023, 11:11 AM Masen KF7HVM <kf7hvm@...> wrote: I’ve had good luck with old Chromebooks converted to run Linux… if you don’t need GPIO, these are nice because they have integrated battery, display, and keyboard. Also can be easily had for < $50. I have 5 Lenovo N23, which I use Portable and at repeater sites (as igate). I have 2 Odroid XU4's. None of the negative issues mentioned above apply, and I expect the same is true for the newer Odroid models. One of them is running Ubuntu 20.04, and the other is on 22.04, both of which are images provided by Hardkernel (maker of the Odroids). 73, Lee K5DAT?
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Masen KF7HVM,
What do you use for the tnc? Thanks KB8UIH ----------------------------------------- From: "Masen KF7HVM"To: [email protected] Cc: Sent: Thursday January 12 2023 12:11:40PM Subject: Re: [yaac-users] Pi clone to replace Rasp Pi? I’ve had good luck with old Chromebooks converted to run Linux… if you don’t need GPIO, these are nice because they have integrated battery, display, and keyboard. Also can be easily had for < $50. I have 5 Lenovo N23, which I use Portable and at repeater sites (as igate). My main station computer (where I run YAAC) is a SBC, running Armbian. I’ve had no issues with this setup and do use GPIO pins to key the radio. The main problem you’ll have with the clone boards will definitely be finding compatible kernels that support all of the board features you’re trying to use. The big understated feature of the real raspi is amazing compatibility and software support, everything tends to “just work”. With a clone board, you’ll be digging through wiki pages and forum posts trying to figure out what the latest information for your board is. For the specific board you linked, I think you’ll find it severely underpowered for running a graphical window manager and YAAC. If you do go for a knock off board, I’d suggest something with at least 4GB of RAM. -Masen, KF7HVM |
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For TNC, I’m using direwolf combined with
DRA-34 (cm108 GPIO) Signalink USB (VOX) or a Cheapo $8 USB sound card plus USB to Serial for RTS-based keying. I’ve used each of these sound cards with both the Rock64, Pi3/4, and Chromebook. I’ll consider writing up a blog post with more details on my setup. -Masen KF7HVM |
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