On 20/12/21 5:52 pm, Curt wrote:
> On 2021-12-18, Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> wrote:
>> Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Maybe I missed something. Why RISC V?
>> Just having an alternative is attractive to some. Having an open
>> alternative even more so.
>>
>> I'd happily run ARM or RISC-V, if those were an alternative for a decent
>> desktop or laptop computer. Raspberry Pi is scratching and clawing its
>> way there little by little. As the Pi 4 has exposed a PCIe connection,
>> it has a viable storage now for a small system. But still slow and weird
>> form factor. Maybe in Pi 6 or maybe 10? Who knows.
> The 3.14159265359 is still popular.
>
>> RISC-V is better in the form factor part as there's a standard Mini-ITX
>> board but the price and performance aren't there yet. Not to mention
>> software support. I'd want an official Debian release first.
>>
>>
>>
There are a few ARM SBC that are very powerful - better than Pi 4. They
have NVME/PCiE disk interfaces and several USB 3.0 interfaces.
For myself I've always been an Arduino fan over others. And I worked for British-owned
Premier-Farnell's American property which distributes RPi's here, Newark Element14 :-)
Helped move their datacenter :-)
Arduino's are mostly ARM-based and models like the Mega are incredibly powerful and cheap.
Full OS's run on more advanced models, or just Arduino's open-source runtime. Program in
their C++ environment, python, Java.... Hundreds of snap-on sensor boards are available.
Italian-made models are on-the-shelf at certain retailers that serve the maker-community.
I have next to me a prototype synthpad based on an Arduino Uno. 5 years ago up at Michigan Tech
University, I saw a self-guided submarine drone that had both a Pi and Arduino on-board. Exploring
in the university's swimming pool.
The NanoPi M4V2 is one such, but there are several competitors mostly
using RockChip chipsets.
They run Armbian and usually have integrated gigabit LAN (2.5 Gigabit
with the right drivers) and dual band wifi and bluetooth.
As a workstation they are more than adequate. As a home server they are
more than adequate.
--
Jeremy