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  • SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    15 hours ago

    Agree. I know the Pi’s are out of favour these days…but they are a cool little machine. I got mine running DietPi and a bunch o crap (the usuals - JF, arr stack, pi hole, syncthing, yadda yadda) and running headless the footprint (power and memory wise) is tiny.

    I joked about the 4xAA batteries thing but iirc, there is actually a Pi-HAT that creates a micro UPS that’ll run the pi for maybe three to five hours just on double A batteries.

    Edit: yep

    https://pimodules.com/product/ups-pico-hv4-0-advanced

    or more sensibly

    https://littlebirdelectronics.com.au/collections/raspberry-pi-power-hats/products/raspberry-pi-ups-hat

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago

      I’ve got a drawer full of various models I’ve picked up here and there, mostly used that people were selling. I stumbled across a yard sale once where a guy and his son were selling a lot of computer equipment to raise money for his son to get some newer stuff for college. There was a whole box of them, maybe 10+ and I paid $100 for all of them. I use them from time to time for different projects. Good little learning boards.