What's your favorite board? Also, Seeed Studios (no affiliation) still has one model of CM4 still available for sale, FYI. Be sure to subscribe to my 2nd channel, Geerling Engineering-my Dad and I will test out the BliKVM on it soon! ru-vid.com/show-UCsd6hP-zzIkCpw8XGw7Osyw
That PiGear NANO might solve a problem using the Pi in astrophotography gear. There never seem to be enough USB 3 ports for all the fiddly bits (focusers, cameras, mounts) and cooled astro cameras are heavy power eaters. 2.0 ports just don't win when your single image size is > 40M. I am using the WaveShare board for my CM4 astronomy setup for the simple reason that it has 4 well-powered USB 3 ports. A board with ports AND fast storage would be most excellent. Also, lots of folks (including myself) have used the Pi HQ camera for astro-photography. There is even an INDI driver for it that works reasonably well. It is "OK" for planetary and wide field, but not amazing...though it does work. Great channel, by the way. I enjoy your process and humor.
I would think if you can do autostakkert (or something like it), the sensor on the HQ camera should do pretty decent. I just haven't had the time to play with it that I'd like.
@@JeffGeerling I use Siril. In a pinch, ASTAP. I like the way ASTAP does auto-grading and rejection and use it for plate-solving anyway, but Siril is probably a better overall stacker at this moment in time. And yes, the HQ cam is impressive for its cost.
@@tyrzxv In the past I've connected cameras to my telescope. When you have really zoomed in anything can dramatically jiggle the image. Luckily my favorite camera featured an IR remote. It was a terribly cheap telescope but even then I got some great pictures. With the cameras we have built into phones today and a cheap selfie remote you could get some crazy good pictures.
The Pi boards, and the CM4 in particular, seem to have become to computing in the 2020s what the Apple ][ was in the 1970s; a starting point for all sorts of inspired devices.
I specially am waiting for a upgrade for the Pi Zero, the ladt update they still left the mem to 512mb, need 1gb (1,5 would be fantastic but doubght there will be one), other stats now are desent on the latest update. Compute modules are so rare, even past 3 years have not found one available even to order to my country (EU member).
Such a shame they handicapped the CM4 with only a single lane of antiquated PCIe 2.0. Imagine the possibilities that would be opened up if it had even two lanes, or a full four lanes of PCIe 3.0 or 4.0. Even a single SATA3 port is throttled by the PCIe 2.0 interface; let alone multiple USB3, SATA3, 2.5Gbe or 5Gbe, NVMe, etc.
Well, the idea to have 2nd channel is great. But i suppose all the engineering content will perfectly fit in this channel (imho of course). Great stuff, Jeff! Thank you very much for everything you do! Stay safe and greetings from Siberia!
I'm trying to build an 'ultimate Pi router' at some point, but different problems keep popping up that are preventing the completion of the build. I might have to compromise and just focus on one aspect of my 'ultimate' build, because something is definitely better than nothing!
good videos. two meta questions I keep having: - when will CM4 be back in stock? surely at some point these videos become pointless without it - mebe you could tell us a bit about the ecosystem? why are these boards getting made? who is buying them? how do you get a custom one made? decoupling compute from IO is the name of the game, so why can't I spec my own IO?
Official site says no availability for 2022. If there's any, it'll all go to industrial product manufacturers. Jeff may need to hibernate or switch to let's play videos.
Hi Jeff, what a great video! It's a shame that CM4 boards have gotten so expensive recently. Any chance we get a roundup of cool expansions for the original RPI4?
I think part of that is due to the fact the CM4 provides what people have been asking for on the regular RPi. It’s just a shame we don’t have a rpi with proper NVMe support, more than one PCIe x1 lane, a higher performance cpu (Snapdragon 7xx or Mediatek), etc. Keep the low cost philosophy, but offer a product for those that want to make the Rpi their daily machine or want to do more with machine vision, ai, a NVR, etc.
They are not only prizy, but also almost out of the marked because of the rate of the production at this moment. If there are any production on semi conductors at this moment. It's painful to watch all the semi conducting equipments has been drained out of the market. There is no fun to make own project when it is too prizy and almost impossible to get a hand on.
it is board to test and it cost bcoz low product line. you can get schematics for board and make own. thats purpose. rpi is axatcly same we allready have we not need cm unless you try build something to manufacture, but even then you can just make own board
The entire Raspberry Pi market should pay you for marketing. You should try to get into drop shipping Pi expansion boards. Seriously, every one that I am interested in I can't google up... Oh Geerling did another video on expansion boards... GEERLING!!!! I look forward to that 5x SATA board video.
I think he could convince anyone that anything negative is positive. I paraphrase: "This board didn't work as expected, but it was great for this other project." If I could only cultivate that mindset.
That PiGear Nano looks awesome. I'm very much looking forward to the industrial Pi video as I've been wanting to put a Pi/s into a Eurocard frame for some time.
Bummer on the PoE not working with the Router Board, but I still have an extra CM4 sitting here that I'd like to throw in one of them. Thanks for the vid!
The PiGear Nano has really an impressive feature set for serious IIoT use cases. On the normal Pi or for example on the TOFU board you can utilize several HATs with supercaps to initiate a safe shutdown in case of an unexpected power cut off. This is a must have in many IIoT use cases. You would have to create your own solution to face this issue on the PiGear Nano.
I have no idea in terms of Programming, Circuitry and all that. But in the end? This is still probably the coolest thing, Why? Because you can increase your space AND! connect many more things. at the cost of having a normal sounding electronic device.
We might have the same interest. I am looking at making a Pi do telemetry for a broadcast transmitter. Everything is there some closures to remote control it and analog ports that can read the meters. Just need to tie it all together.
Just Subbed a few days ago after watching a lot of your videos, I got a Pi400 to learn and tinker about on as Home Assistant looks very powerful after seeing your ZigBee videos Great watching your Videos, i hope you can get your hands on the relay board seeing what it can really do, as it would go great with home assistant i think
You can tell Jeff is wound up. RSJ must be waiting in the wings to explode into action, seeing all of those boards in one picture, must be like a cat about to pounce on a mouse.
BitPiRat is definitely made for running a full Bitcoin ledger node. Rad. How are you Jeff? Hope all is well for you. I'm still Drupalin like crazy. :P Love your channel. I have been tinkering with Pis for a few years and I love to see you push limits on the hardware. Amazing stuff.
The most by far intresting one was the sata+ethernet one. Perfect for home Media/File server+router/wifi, basicly own home internet mainfame type of thing.
The PiGear NANO whould be amazing for a VERY capable router because it whould be a nice PiHole DNS Server, a print server (both 3D printers and paper printers), a NAS (maybe). Also it has a slot for a 4G card, giving the whole setup redudancy
At first i want to make a simple replacment for my phone, just adding a toutchscreen and a sim module. Later i want to make a home web system (file/media server + router + wifi + simple mail server + even simpler basik http web server (isolated)) and it seems there finally is hardware now available the sata and 4 ethernet board in this video. Few other simple projects... And for first advanced project (with own pcb with pi module) i want to make a 2 module so called pocket pc with many functions. 1 module to controll and handle all the hardware, the other to just run the os and apps. Added hardware(more than in the original build) will be a yoistick mouse, SDR and finally the most challenging hardware addon... The sunclasses with built in oled display(i mean i have found some good small dize and good resolution ones but need the perfect, it can cost doble more than everything else combined). So i am playing a computer game blasting(bone induction audio) with full stereo(or be in a zoom call/class with no cam from you but see, hear and can chat with everyone), but walking outside, hand in pocket, with no headset and sound. Later on if all works fine i might make a updated version(more rugged and more industrisl looking) of the classes if a better oled is available or old needs replacment (broken) where i would want to add stereo camera(bright light and night vision), distance laser, and maybe even a dedicated stabilised(zoom camera (or prob as an attachment), directional mic and rf resiver. Basicly try to make a spy headset (it might end up looking something like a nightvision goggles or something) xD Would be cool overall, feel ad a kid again. Prob will still keep the light one still too.
How in the world does someone get their hands on a CM4 these days? I checked my usual SBC suppliers, and they are stating they may have them in stock between September and January 2023?
This router board may well be the board i was waiting for. Compared to the other offers, it has everything, and it is not expensive. I like the fact that there is room for the GPIOs and a hat. If i can get hold of it, it may well become my new router until i deploy a pfSense box!
@@nataliegrn17 Sorry but i don't understand your message? perhaps you replied to the wrong person? I did not order one because i have to find a distributor for my region (France).
This candy called krówka in English means little cow. Btw Could tell me the factory who made this candy - I m from Poland I will try to find this product in our local shops.
I think the development of small form factor computers has been stunted in the last 2 years with all the out of stock and no inventory situations when requesting Raspberry Pi boards and many of the common components to get the thing to work for the assignment you want.
