Great now I'll get to toast my breakfast as the sunrises after my 12 hours long luma island session

Yeah it's the "just wire them up" part that I'm not confident in, how do I do that? Is there something that just plugs in my pi? I've got one that does but the LEDs get hot (70C) and are probably too strong (as in, potentially eye damaging territory)

Can’t speak to how well it will work.

But if you are looking for IR led solutions, a quick search online brought up some options. So you can purchase them and just wire them up.

Random option from amazon

It's not surprising. If I were looking for a cheap but capable microcontroller that is well documented and already supported by a bunch of frameworks and rtos implementations I would certainly consider the rp2050. I guess the esp32 is the only thing close and that has WiFi built in.

Overclocking low-clock devices is surprisingly easy. The reason they are clocked so low is mostly power consumption and heat. Both of which are not that hard to combat if you don't care about stuff like battery life and portability.

commercial

Ahh! Now I understand the "Smart" branding.

I mean, if you can find a OLED or some sort of mini-led screen of the appropriate size, then it might be useful for making your own DIY smart TV without ads, but you're gonna be spending a lot of money and possibly going through a few spools of plastic on a 3D printer to make something that's even marginally useful.

It's a CM5 carrier board that breaks out some HDMI ports and other connectivity for commercial signage displays. Not very interesting for hobbyists I imagine.

Give KDEConnect a try. Works on Windows,Linux and Android. Does much more than sending files locally

Pretty cool. Really cool, actually. But, I'd say the HackRF One is the star here, not the Rpi.

"For all my projects, the motivation is the same," Champion told The Register. "We tend to look past the technology that surrounds us and shapes our lives. My work is about forcing us to look at it, and seeing the beauty in engineering."

Really like this!

The author probably is using the historic definition:

... advanced computer technology enthusiast (both hardware and software) and adherent of programming subculture

What do you mean by "Hacker"?

This is a beautiful piece of art. The sounds it makes is especially cool.

Tldr: LLM use: No.

Any reason to stick to large SD cards? I have a really good experience running a cluster of rpis on USB nvme disks. I got cheap USB 3 nvme pockets and post-market/post-lease nvme disks. 4 rpis have been running like that for more than 3 years now. They boot in about 1 second, don't have any spikes in energy usage and I don't worry about writing or reading too much from them. Average read/write time is under 2ms.

Well yes, if you know what your doing then the best would ext4.

I've not changed commit times before, but I would still avoid heavy write situations

Genuinely curious. Why exFAT? (I didn't downvote you, BTW).

I've not had any issues using ext4 for my Pi's SD cards. Any issues due to improper shutdowns are fixed with journal recovery. I also like to set a fairly high commit time in the mount options (120 seconds usually). Worst case is I lose the last 2 minutes of data, but it seems to work well to coalesce the writes (especially for things like Jellyfin or anything that uses SQLite and does a lot of constant little writes).

A pi should see an SD card fine, just make sure its exFAT

That's what I was thinking but wasn't sure if 1 TB ones would even work (my phone won't read above a 256 GB one, for example).

For storing the media should be fine, but I would avoid it for the OS

Thanks. It's basically a travel router + portable app server + media library. I wanted to play with the much more capable Pi Zero clones and it turns out they can run quite a bit of stuff at the same time and the features snowballed as I just kept adding more stuff (I got the models with 4 GB RAM).

This would be great for parents too

Definitely, at least once I add some GPIO switches to set different modes for the networking (that's kind of a pain point now if you need to setup a different wifi client connection, switch its internet connection from wifi to USB tethering from a connect phone or switch the ethernet port from LAN to WAN, etc).

We had a power outage during a snow storm week or so ago and the prototype ran all day from a power bank and kept a limited Jellyfin library online for everyone (mostly Star Trek and Marvel movies since those are the only things everyone in the house can agree on haha).

I don't have an answer for you

Just wanna say I love your project!

This would be great for parents too

I’m almost certain someone asked a chatbot to list devices “Like a Flipper Zero” and now you’re asked not to bring a specific general purpose computer from an event. I don’t think it’s sinister. I think it’s just stupidity. Now enhanced with a machine that lets you think even less.

Probably because they have more than enough Kraken addicts already.