It is official! The Raspberry Pi 5 is being released October 2023! (Official product page) I expect it will be some time before I can get my hands on one. Until then I will need to compare specifications. Lets take a look at the RPI5 and the Rock 5B. NOTE: This article will compare the…
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sbc_gpio: Pi 4B vs Rock 5B
One of my goals over the past couple of years has been to find a suitable replacement for the Raspberry Pi 4B as supplies have been low and costs have been high. During the past couple of years, I’ve purchased several different boards to test out. Now that I have a GPIO abstraction layer and…
ZRAM for your SBC
One issue that I have seen crop up multiple times on different SBC’s is memory and swap. I have seen many SBC’s out out of the box that come with no swap space enabled. For systems with no GUI running a single task, this rarely turns into an issue. For larger systems running a GUI…
Raspberry Pi 4B Setup for sbc_gpio
If you are looking for the results of the sbc_gpio tests, please check out our sbc_gpio Pi 4B vs Rock 5B comparison. Configuring the sbc_gpio for the Raspberry Pi 4B test requires 1x I2C, 2x SPI, 1x UART and 2x IR (1 Tx and 1 Rx). All the configuration can be done directly in the…
Python logging_handler released!
The “logging_handler” provides a quick and easy way to create a logging object in Python. The Python logging is an incredibly powerful tool, however the options are extensive and the defaults I find to be less than adaquate. The the code in this library I have been using for years on every Python script I…
Python ADC Current Logger (ammeter_logger)
Overview Latest code is available on GitHub, view the other articles in our load testing series This project is part 2 of 2 to capture current data for our load testing. An ESP32 microcontroller will be used as a sender, and this project will cover the SBC device setup to receive. The device will be…