Shrinking the footprint of Raspberry PI


 
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MattNCSU

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I saw this on Kickstarter and ordered one...should arrive any day now. It's a microSD to SD adapter that is barely bigger than the microSD card. It eliminates the SD card protrusion from the side of the Raspberry Pi. I haven't look too much at the 4.1 design yet but incorporating something like this might shave half an inch or so from the case width in future revisions.

http://www.openelectrons.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=29
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I thought for a second you were going to say somehow a whole rPi was in that adapter, LOL, now THAT would be amazing!
I would be a tiny bit leery about using an adapter because one of the only problems I have had has been due to the SD card getting loose. Besides, isn't the case small enough as is, and aren't the probe jacks on the HM board out further than the SD card anyways?
 
Along those lines when this guy is available it would be a great option for embedded systems. It's a 400mhz x86 chip with built in wifi/bluetooth. Think of the possibilities! Depending on how it's implemented it might make for a great heatermeter base. The Galileo has analog ins so we could remove the need for a dedicated atmega. With the edison we could shrink the footprint, include wifi, and hopefully reduce the need for the atmega. I wonder if we could shrink it enough to fit inside of your valve Ralph.

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-it-yourself/edison.html
 
I got one of these when they did the Kickstarter so long ago. The little thing that held the microsd card ended up coming off the PCB and was really fidgety. I also didn't like requiring yet another component with separate shipping driving up the cost of the device.

Can't really make the HeaterMeter much smaller anyway without starting to move components under the LCD which would make things really hard to troubleshoot or modify. Or make the device fatter which it is already fatter than I'd like it to be.
 
I won a ras pi at work recently but it hasnt been delivered yet. I googled it and still not really sure what it is. How do you guys use yours?
 
I have 5 of them (not counting the 2 I've destroyed).

-- HeaterMeter v4.0
-- HeaterMeter v4.1 Test
-- Octoprint mounted to the 3D printer
-- Software Testing Model A
-- Software Testing Model B

It's sort of like asking what to do with a hammer, a Pi is just a tool to perform a task. Some people use them as media center, or classic console / arcade emulators, or a way to learn python programming, etc. It's a little teeny cheap computer, you do whatever you want with it. It helps to have a project to apply it to.
 
What what what? A minecraft server on one? Did that work ok? I have one on my main linux box eating cycles and have been looking to offload it.
 
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