This morning I replaced a noisy cooling fan on my Raspberry Pi 5. The replacement fan cost a reasonable $10 with free shipping and only took me about 10 minutes to replace. Only a small screwdriver and a pair of needle nose pliers were required for the job. The fan noise had been most noticeable when it booted up as the firmware runs a fan check. It will be nice not to have to endure that any longer.
One of the small ARM based embedded systems which I build firmware and software for at work uses the same Linux Debian Bookworm 64-bit release as I have running on the Pi which makes building code much easier. The cross compile environment we had been using on Intel based Ubuntu servers took much longer to build our application software. Plus having a Unix like environment readily available automatically makes me so much more productive.
It's so easy to install software packages on the Pi and there's such a wide variety of software available that I can use the Pi for almost any task I need to accomplish. It's become my second favorite development machine of my lengthy career, marginally behind a Sun Workstation I used in the early 1990s.
This machine was affordable when I built it two years ago but AI's endless thirst for computing hardware has driven the price of memory and flash storage devices up a lot. I think duplicating this machine at today's prices would be close to twice the $200 this originally cost to build.
No comments:
Post a Comment
I moderate comments to prevent spam. Please be patient until I have time to approve your message.