Qualcomm just announced they're acquiring Arduino, the company that introduced a whole generation of tinkerers to microcontrollers and embedded electronics.| www.jeffgeerling.com
I ordered a set of 10 Compute Blades in April 2023 (two years ago), and they just arrived a few weeks ago. In that time Raspberry Pi upgraded the CM4 to a CM5, so I ordered a set of 10 16GB CM5 Lite modules for my blade cluster. That should give me 160 GB of total RAM to play with.| www.jeffgeerling.com
These are CubeSats. Satellites that are going to space—or at least, the ones I have here are prototypes. But these have one thing in common: they're all powered by either a Raspberry Pi, or a microcontroller.| www.jeffgeerling.com
Many YouTube content creators, myself included, noticed something in early to mid-August: views were down.| www.jeffgeerling.com
Now that Joel0 in the TrueNAS community has created a fork of TrueNAS that runs on Arm, I thought I'd give it a spin—on a Raspberry Pi.| www.jeffgeerling.com
Raspberry Pi launched the 2 gig Pi 5 for $50, and besides half the RAM and a lower price, it has a new stepping of the main BCM2712 chip.| www.jeffgeerling.com
A few months ago, I upgraded my M4 Mac mini from 1 to 2 TB of internal storage, using a then-$269 DIY upgrade kit from ExpandMacMini.| www.jeffgeerling.com
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tl;dr: it depends.| www.jeffgeerling.com
It's risky business fighting Intel, AMD, and Arm, and that's exactly what Star Five is trying to do with this:| www.jeffgeerling.com
RISC-V is the new entrant into the SBC/low-end desktop space, and as I'm in possession of a HiFive Premier P550 motherboard, I am running it through my usual gauntlet of benchmarks—partly to see how fast it is, and partly to gauge how far along RISC-V support is in general across a wide swath of Linux software.| www.jeffgeerling.com
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The latest RISC-V computer I've tested is the Milk-V Jupiter. It's pokey at Intel Core 2 Duo levels of performance—at least according to Geekbench.| www.jeffgeerling.com
I've been testing a Milk-V Jupiter this week, and have tested a number of other RISC-V development boards over the past two years.| www.jeffgeerling.com
tl;dr: No, it's not a replacement for a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. But yes, it's an exciting tiny RISC-V board that could be just the ticket for more RISC-V projects, tapping into the diverse ecosystem of existing Compute Module 4 boards.| www.jeffgeerling.com
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Ansible runs on Python, and Python runs on... well pretty much everything. Including newer RISC-V machines.| www.jeffgeerling.com
In 2009, a company in South Africa proved a homing pigeon was faster than an ADSL connection, flying a 4 GB USB flash drive to prove it.| www.jeffgeerling.com
...or at least, not without a lot of patience or a fat wallet.| www.jeffgeerling.com