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<p>Murry (and others),</p>
<p>Since you mention the Zero W you might find my Hackaday article
on the release of the Zero interesting. It was click bait with
some serious comments. And it worked. There were something like
170,000 accesses which outstripped anything previously written. It
also made the front page of one of the article listing sites. <br>
</p>
<p>Will definitely look at that Zero W once they are available. I
got my cross-compile working from the CLI. Now to get it working
with Eclipse. Each of us have their preferences based on long term
usage. That's mine. <br>
</p>
<div class="moz-signature"><font face="Comic Sans MS"
color="#000080"> <br>
-73 - <br>
<b>Rud Merriam K5RUD</b> <br>
<a href="http://mysticlakesoftware.com/"> <i>Mystic Lake
Software</i> </a> <br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/24/21 12:55 AM, Murray Altheim
via DPRGlist wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:1ab07b7d-1169-ab47-5cc3-613f21d37bf4@altheim.com">On
24/11/21 6:45 pm, Rud Merriam via DPRGlist wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Folks at the meeting mentioned that Pis
generally don't pull the
<br>
power that is specified. I looked again at the specs for earlier
<br>
Pis. I'd forgotten the Pi 3B had built in WiFi. Since I have
one,
<br>
I powered it up using an SD card that was already in place. It
booted fine and power draw is much lower than the 'rating'. Now
I just need to remember how to set up doing remote development
<br>
from my PC to the Pi.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Hi Rud,
<br>
<br>
You can either use a VSCode plugin to remote in to the robot from
a
<br>
desktop, or do as I do, which is to ssh in and do my work on the
<br>
robot itself, pushing my work to github. I'm a command line/vi
person
<br>
so this is kinda a default anyway.
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Might look at a Pi 4 when they become
available in the middle of 2022.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
If you don't need the horsepower of the Pi 4, there's also the
<br>
Raspberry Pi Zero W (with WiFi) and the new four core version of
it,
<br>
the Raspberry PI Zero W 2. The former was benchmarked* at about
120mA
<br>
with WiFi on, 80mA with it off. The newer model resp. at
120mA/100mA.
<br>
I've used the Zero W for a number of robots, and just received my
<br>
first Zero W 2 a few days ago. Very tiny board but very useful,
and
<br>
theres's a lot of accessories available for it, like the
PiconZero.
<br>
I've had a bunch of them running security cameras around my house
24/7
<br>
for years now, entirely reliable.
<br>
<br>
Cheers,
<br>
<br>
Murray
<br>
<br>
* <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.pidramble.com/wiki/benchmarks/power-consumption">https://www.pidramble.com/wiki/benchmarks/power-consumption</a>
<br>
...........................................................................
<br>
Murray Altheim <murray18 at altheim dot
com> = = ===
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.altheim.com/murray/">http://www.altheim.com/murray/</a>
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<br>
The rice leaves in the garden
<br>
Rustle in the autumn wind
<br>
That blows through my reed hut.
<br>
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