Your Raspberry Pi Projects

[jaco.slabbert]

Active cooling is a given for the Pi 4

Unfortunately yes. I hope a proper heatsink will do. For my type of projects low power consumption is important.

 

[jaco.slabbert]

Ditto. Part of the reason I'm keen on using Pis in many scenarios is lack of fan noise.

Check peltier eliment and heatsink systems for cooling.

 

[jaco.slabbert]

There are, the key is to start with more basic things first and the to build up to the more ambitious ones.
I agree with you about the coding, some of the code the guys post make my atrocious code look good! And sometimes I wonder if their project ever worked at all.

Many of my projects have been made from stuff that broke that I dismantled, but when I decide to buy something I make sure to have 3 or more different tutorials using the same thing to have some options.

Get a good book. Learn python.

 

[Ares1000101]

Just arrived! Built quality looks good!

So Temps: I only measured idle Temps, with pi-hole installed.
Ambient was about 25 deg today.

Naked - 55 deg
Heatsink on, fans off - 49 deg
Heatsink on, fans on - 38 deg

 

[Spiderman_RT]

Just arrived! Built quality looks good!

So Temps: I only measured idle Temps, with pi-hole installed.
Ambient was about 25 deg today.

Naked - 55 deg
Heatsink on, fans off - 49 deg
Heatsink on, fans on - 38 deg

Any abnormal fan noise level noted?

 

[Spiderman_RT]

Ditto. Part of the reason I'm keen on using Pis in many scenarios is lack of fan noise.

Unfortunately yes. I hope a proper heatsink will do. For my type of projects low power consumption is important.

What about This heatsink

 

[Ares1000101]

Any abnormal fan noise level noted?

You can hear it in a quiet room. Nothing too irritating though.

 

[Spiderman_RT]

You can hear it in a quiet room. Nothing too irritating though.

Well I use my pi as a HTPC so I suppose it won't bother me as I won't hear it over my surround sound

 

[kayvee]

pcbway. It's $5 for 10 boards, and $8 to ship (to UK)

I have found jlcpcb.com to be very good.

 

[SykomantiS]

I have found jlcpcb.com to be very good.

This is encouraging as I have a bunch of pcb's for the O2 headphone amp that I had printed by them. Still need to complete that specific project though.

 

[HavocXphere]

Managed to get Mycroft AI going.

i.e. A DIY Alexa

Not quite on the same level in terms of polish, but not as bad as expected either. Can def see myself using this for home automation tasks.

 

[PhireSide]

Managed to get Mycroft AI going.

i.e. A DIY Alexa

Not quite on the same level in terms of polish, but not as bad as expected either. Can def see myself using this for home automation tasks.

Good to see you back on here Mr. Xphere

 

[K3NS31]

Managed to get Mycroft AI going.

i.e. A DIY Alexa

Not quite on the same level in terms of polish, but not as bad as expected either. Can def see myself using this for home automation tasks.

Have you tried any of the other Pi AI assistants? I've definitely heard of at least one other, although I don't remember the name.

 

[Georgios]

I setup Recalbox on my Pi yesterday. Linked both my PS3 controllers. Works like a charm. Able to play ps 1 games no problems. Temp according to the portal is around 75C. Not too bad.

 

[K3NS31]

I setup Recalbox on my Pi yesterday. Linked both my PS3 controllers. Works like a charm. Able to play ps 1 games no problems. Temp according to the portal is around 75C. Not too bad.

Pi 4?

 

[Georgios]

Pi 4?

No Pi 3.

 

[K3NS31]

No Pi 3.

Nice. May try that on my Pi 3 soon.

 

[gregmcc]

PCB's finally arrived from pcbway for the Pi1541 Soldered everything together, configured Pi and works like a charm (Pi1541 is a Pi based Commodore 1541 disk drive emulator for the +4/C64/Vic20

 

[dualmeister]

Oracle Shows 1060 Raspberry Pi Supercomputer

 

[K3NS31]

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