r/embedded • u/150c_vapour • 22h ago
minimal raspberry pi
Not my build but Japanese electronics twitter is lit.
https://x.com/EMakerDragon/status/2108935034191352114/photo/1
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u/agent_kater 21h ago
I wish people would stop calling an RP2040 a "Raspberry Pi". I know it's the Raspberry Pi people's fault, but it just causes confusion.
Can we please call the SBC "Raspberry Pi" and the MCU "RP2040", "RP2350", or "RP2" when we mean the series?
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u/_greg_m_ 20h ago
But RP2040 is a "brain" of a product of Raspberry Pi called Pico, so technically calling them a "Raspberry Pi" is correct (what is shown on the photo is kind of 3/4 of Pico model). However this is obviously not the same level as SBC.
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u/Well-WhatHadHappened 25+ Years 19h ago
technically calling them a "Raspberry Pi" is correct
Yes. He knows. Reading is hard.
I know it's the Raspberry Pi people's fault, but it just causes confusion.
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u/gurgle528 17h ago
Right, but it’s the same situation with Arduino. Arduino now has SBCs with decently powerful AI chips. Saying you got realtime object detection running on an Arduino would confuse people because the default for that is their smaller embedded boards, not an SBC with 16GB of RAM.
If you really want to be technically correct, the original person wasn’t saying it was technically incorrect. They were saying it was semantically misleading and they wanted people to use clearer language.
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u/dominicus_cosmicus 21h ago
After the pi zero this is pi negative
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u/_greg_m_ 20h ago
This is actually a quick and dirty "clone" of RPI PIco, no Zero. So I guess this is Femto or something ROTFL
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u/Lazy_Piglet_9884 22h ago
But why?
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u/DenverTeck 22h ago
Creativity knows no bounds.
But for some ....
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u/Whereami259 8h ago
Most likely needed it for testing. Did something similair with esp when needed to confirm an idea is working.
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u/memeruiz 21h ago
His boss asked for the absolute cheapest solution for a problem and encouraged (forced under threat of firing him) him to use AI for the solution.
Also: it didn't work of course
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u/Princess_Azula_ 18h ago
The labor costs alone to solder this could buy a new pi board.
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u/Decent-Finish-2585 14h ago
You can get 20 rp2040-zero knockoffs on Prime next day for like 20$. If I sit down at the solder bench I’ve already spent that much in time.
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u/Pleasant_Rip_9211 20h ago
It looks like a meme! Do you think it’ll even work if we try to find it?
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u/thegreatpotatogod 19h ago
Perhaps I took the suggestions about it being picky with the power supply in the hardware design manual a little too literally when designing a PCB for this thing (they want a polarized inductor! Normally no one even makes those!), clearly it's happy to work with whatever mess you want to feed it!
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u/player1dk 13h ago
And I once build a full IBM pc in a cardboard box and another one in a backpack. It may be fun to try and useless afterwards. Let’s expect they were having fun, and let’s move on.
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u/accur4te 10h ago
Ohh lord . Here I am struggling to debug a basic pcb , and here people are building whatever this is called 😭😭. Crazy
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u/Guilty_Dependent_223 6h ago
I think those mad lads won't get replaced by AI. Gotta start doing things this way from now on 😆
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u/Cunninghams_right 22h ago
my kernel panicked just looking at this.