On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 4:00 AM Jeremy Ardley <jer...@ardley.org> wrote:
> > On 20/12/21 5:52 pm, Curt wrote: > > On 2021-12-18, Anssi Saari <a...@sci.fi> wrote: > >> Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@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 > >
