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Small monitor for mounting inside of a pumpkin
Buy a tablet.
In fact the amazon fire looks like a great option here. In fact, its cheaper than a 7 inch tablet with similar specs from my favoured crapgadget vendor
Its a cheap, bog standard ...
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Micro SD for Raspberry PI 2 B
I will answer my own question.
I ended up buying a SanDisk extreme plus micro SDHC 16 GB (20€).
OSMC runs more than smoothly on it.
16 GB seems to be a good size. OSMC takes less than 300 MB but the ...
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Small monitor for mounting inside of a pumpkin
If you just want a display, adafruit has a very nice 7" display for about 70usd. DX has screens that are considerably cheaper, slightly dubious build quality compared to what the adafruit screens seem ...
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Cheapest single computer board with Wi-Fi and audio
I'm looking for something similar to this myself; currently I'm using a CHIP from NextThingCo; you'd have to write the software yourself for what you want, but it runs standard linux.
Wi-Fi ...
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Cheapest single computer board with Wi-Fi and audio
Your best bet is one of the Rasbperry PI 2 or 3 is $35
The PI 3 does actually have built-in wifi, but no WPS button or activity leds. They both have a RJ45 for hard wiring with activity leds.
You ...
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Cheap and small server for home / small business installation
Unless your LAMP stack will see high load, the Raspberry Pi 3 is a perfect choice for your purposes. It can even be overclocked decently if you add a few small heatsinks to its chip surfaces.
I have ...
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What are some handheld-device/board with Wifi+Bluetooth+processor?
Most microcontroller boards less than $20 do not have Bluetooth/Wifi/Eth, or LCD ports. The Raspberry Pi is your best bet, but if you need something a bit cheaper with the same capabilities, I'd look ...
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Looking for an **Open-Source** Single Board Computer
It's hard to find a fully libre design in your price range. Most will be based on Allwiner or similar SoCs, which are probably not vendors you want to support, regardless of the availability of ...
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Wifi adapter for raspberry pi zero
What a coincidence, I've also got a RPi Zero. Check this out on Amazon.com,
"Edimax EW-7811Un 150Mbps 11n Wi-Fi USB Adapter"
It's only $8.99. It says it's compatible with RPi and RPi 2. I personally ...
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Are there any USB battery packs that can provide power while charging?
Short Answer: Yes there are power banks that can do that. However, the power bank must support the feature and your phone.A famous brand of power banks can support this feature is Anker one type can ...
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Small monitor for Retropie
There's quite a few similar ones but I used this as a secondary screen for a few years. It got somewhat roughly handled, but if you plan ahead and mount it correctly (and not try to work on it while ...
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USB GPS receiver compatible with Raspberry Pi
The Globalsat ND100 seems to be what you're looking for.
It's a bit bulky, but it seems to do everything you need it to do.
It's only $35USD
Has a thumb-drive-like form factor (Besides it being a ...
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Building a computer science lab
2,000 isn't much. You can buy 1 very expensive desktop with that, or 5 reasonably priced ones. You want 30.
Assuming you want all workstations to be identical, this leaves you with 66 dollars and ...
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Cheap and small server for home / small business installation
If you are looking for the next 5 years of life, why not look at a (refurbished) Dell Small Form Factor PC?
A core i3 or i5 (I recommend the latter) will be more than enough for 5+ years of use, plus ...
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Raspberry PI for vending machine controller
So I won't be able to answer your questions completely, but it looks like the requested features you're looking for has been done in the past. Here is what someone else has been able to do.
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Rasperry Pi alternative with USB 3.0, Ethernet port, and casing?
Well I looked around the web, and I found these options:
Pine64
The Rock64 or the RockPro64 are good options.
As for today, these are the only ones with USB 3.0 from Pine64.
Odroid
You could also ...
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What should I buy as a personal server?
Raspberry pi is an option, but what I prefer is building a desktop pc, because its way faster and upgradable. If you don't need much power, you can get an athlon 3000G, a B450/A520 motherboard, and ...
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Software compatible alternative to Raspberry Pi
RockPi are widely in stock, better performing single board computers. They do generally support most RPi Hats, with exceptions suck as PoE Hats.
They do cost more than RPi 4, but have generally better ...
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usb km/kvm switch with zero latency switching between devices
There is a special class of KVM switch called DDM-class KVM switch that has a built-in DDM (Dynamic Device Mapping) core technology to keep all the shared HID devices of the KVM switch feeding to all ...
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Camera and motherboard with Camera Serial Interface
This post explains how the poster created a four-lane board he's selling to double throughput, and also provided a lot of technical background.
This seller of Pi cameras may also have useful gear.
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What Pin Pad for Raspberry Pi POS with no payments involved?
I would recommend a membrane 3x4 keypad from adafruit, I Just bought one and the keys are really easy to press and the pinout is easy to understand.
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What Pin Pad for Raspberry Pi POS with no payments involved?
Here are a few options for you:
Jelly Comb USB Keypad
Adafruit 3x4 Phone-style Matrix Keypad
DEVMO 2PCS 4 x 4 Matrix Array
Adafruit Membrane 3x4 Matrix Keypad + Extras [ADA419]
Official Raspberry Pi ...
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Need Recommendation for Simple Audio Interfacing into Raspberry Pi
I would advise you against your own hardware for this task. The goal of Raspberry Pi is to be a small-size substitute for a PC, not a large-size substitute for a professional recorder.
Based on your ...
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Small Form Factor Thermal Camera
AMG8833 is a popular thermal camera which has an accuracy of 2.5 °C (4.5 °F). The benefit is that it's commonly used, and has a pretty decent support. The drawback is its tiny resolution, 8×8 pixels ...
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Help me Choose a Rasberry Pi board
You can try it out by buying a Pi Zero W to test the requirements you need since they are very cheap.
Then after you ascertained your requirements go for what you need. Stick with the Zero or get a ...
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Camera for Windows Hello on Windows IOT Core for Raspberry Pi
The top three search results for “windows hello webcam requirements” claim that you need a special infrared, 3D camera:
If Windows Hello doesn’t work, chances are your hardware isn’t compatible. That ...
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incremental encoder with added joystick functionality
I used "six axis joystick with rotation" as the search terms and came up with an open-source resource from the UNMND web site. It appeals to me because I like to build stuff and this one is very much ...
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Raspbery Pi case with Real Time Clock and battery power
The PiJuice HAT includes a battery solution for the Pi, and has a built-in RTC. There's additional features/add-ons available as well.
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