Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.bofh.team!paganini.bofh.team!not-for-mail From: antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Grounded grid VHF front-end Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 01:34:45 -0000 (UTC) Organization: To protect and to server Message-ID: References: <1r2rj8l.msi28f14weovyN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> Injection-Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 01:34:45 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="2304372"; posting-host="WwiNTD3IIceGeoS5hCc4+A.user.paganini.bofh.team"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A"; User-Agent: tin/2.6.2-20221225 ("Pittyvaich") (Linux/6.1.0-9-amd64 (x86_64)) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3 Bytes: 2930 Lines: 37 Jan Panteltje wrote: > > What bothers me today (thought maybe use an extra Raspberry Pi) is that prices > are going up to insane lavels for a Raspi5 8 Gb + supply + housing + sdcard to above 120 USD: > https://www.sossolutions.nl/raspberry-pi-5-8gb-starter-kit-compleet > > For just a bit more you have a decent mini computer: > https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-mini-pc-x86.html > > Inflation? > Time to end raspi stuff and look for other solutions. I bought Raspberry Pi 1B when they appeared, but after that used Chinese alternatives. Orange Pi used to be cheap, most is more expensive now. But Orange Pi Zero 3 is reasonably priced and powerful enough for my purpose. You apparently want PC class machine, for this I want real PC. For light use mini-PCs may be enough and are quite cheap. I got one for equvalent of $70, 6GB RAM, dual core Celeron N3350, 64 GB solid state disc, 2 USB 3.0 slots (+ 2 USB 2.0), LAN, Wifi, of course in case and with included power supply. For me important advantage is that there is no fan (passive cooling only). Less powerful used mini-PCs can be as cheap as equivalent of $5. Supposedly some "TV boxes" are cheap, resonably powerful and can be programmed with Linux. But I did not try one. Pi-s are better for electronics/automation thanks to available interfaces, but that needs much less compute power (camera is the only high bandwidth interface that I use). When you are satified with lower compute power there are some cheap ones. I am trying now Milkv Duo. Radxa ROCK also seem to be reasonably priced. But once you want faster CPU, more RAM, EMMC, etc they are getting more expensive. I am not sure why, memory modules for PC seem to be cheaper than price of adding memory to SBC-s (possibly this is just pure marketing). -- Waldek Hebisch